Given the advanced age of their respective running mates – Donald Trump 74 and Joe Biden 77 – as well as Trump’s recent COVID-19 diagnosis, there are concerns that whoever wins the presidential election next month might not be able to serve out their entire term.
As stated in the Constitution, if the president for any reason is unable to serve, then the vice-president is the next one up.
Again, I must state that I am not rooting for any president to die. And yes, that includes Trump. I already stated that at length in a previous post that was related to the president visiting Walter Reed Medical Center upon announcing that he tested positive for COVID-19.
The question going into and after the one and only debate between Pence and Harris is who is best prepared to handle the situation where they become president under the worst possible situation.
Is it Kamala Harris who clearly has the credentials to be Commander-in-Chief; or is it Mike Pence whose only experience with infectious diseases is making an HIV-AIDS outbreak worse as Indiana governor and was tasked to lead the government’s COVID-19 response only because it looked good?
It should also be noted that Mike Pence is not the calming presence that he portrays. In a March 2018 episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver points out that Pence’s façade is concealment for the culture warrior that he really is.
And prior to this debate, the Trump-Pence campaign is mocking Kamala Harris for requesting plexiglass barriers despite that several of those afflicted by COVID-19 are people of color.
This could possibly be the final chance the Trump-Pence ticket has to reset the race and as it gets closer to Election Day, it looks like those chances are narrowing. The most recent national polls show the Biden-Harris ticket with double digit leads; the one standing out is CNN showing a 57-41 lead for the Democratic ticket. And already, 4 million people have cast their ballots which is 50 times at this point in 2016.
Four years earlier, there were criticisms that Hillary Clinton was too prepared for the debate.
With the stakes as high as they are now, would we not want someone who is prepared to be president right now?
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