Kamala Harris and Mike Pence face off in highly anticipated vice-presidential debate

Head-to-head serves as reminder that vice-president’s role is to succeed an incapacitated commander-in-chief

Vice-President Mike Pence will square off against Senator Kamala Harris at the only vice-presidential debate of the 2020 election, at a moment of extraordinary uncertainty for the US in the wake of the president’s hospitalization for coronavirus.

Donald Trump’s diagnosis with a potentially fatal disease brought renewed focus to the advanced age of the septuagenarian presidential candidates ahead of Wednesday night’s debate in Salt Lake City. Trump is 74 and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, is 77.

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