Debate coach Brett O’Donnell breaks down Vice President Mike Pence's and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris’ past debate moments on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Brian Vice President MIKE Pence,
Brian Vice President MIKE Pence,
set to go head to head with
Kamala Harris tonight.
What can they learn from past
debate? Performances?
What can we learn?
Lets ask presidential debate,
coach, Brett, Odonnell,
Brett, first off some of the
tenets for vice presidents in
the past, one of which you bring
up is do no harm
thats right.
The first rule, for vice
presidential debates is dont
harm the ticket.
So you are there to represent
the top of the ticket.
You are there to go after the
other sides top of picket.
You are there to defend your
running mate, but you cant do
harm, because obviously people
dont vote because of vice
presidents,
but if you make them vote its
usually because of bad news,
Brian you say: pass the
commander in chief test
have to look like you could be
itpresident
attack. The other ticket
here is an example of a moment
that Harris was prepared for and
im sure she is prepared for
something for something for MIKE
Pence.
This is a moment that really
stood out
listen.
It was hurtful to hear you
talk about the reputations of
two United States senators, who
built their reputation and
career on the segregation of
race.
You also worked with them to
oppose busing.
There was a little girl in
California who was part of the
second class to integrate her
public school and she was
bussed to school every day
and that little girl was me
Brian. He had no idea, she was
going there.
That was the moment even SNL
picked up on
that came out, but that was
prepared
right.
Oh absolutely,
they sold T shirts right after
she delivered that little girl
was me line.
They had t shirts ready to sell.
That said that little girl was
me,
and so it was a completely
canned line.
It was her best moment in the
debates, but across all of the
debates she hasnt been as
strong as she is being made out
to be
Brian. She is whip smart, great
legal, mind
she didnt Prethink, the major I
of the day to her own record and
candidacy.
Now she has to memorize Joe
Biden. She was in five of the eleven
democratic primaries.
You bring up MIKE Pence,
the vice president, hasnt
debated in four years
when he did debate last time
begins TIM Kaine. This is the
moment you told to us pull
listen.
Did you all just hear that
ours is an insult driven
campaign?
To be honest with you, if Donald
Trump had said all the things
that you have said, he said in
the way you said he said them.
He still wouldnt have a
fraction of the insults that
Hillary Clinton leveled when she
said that Hazell of our
supporters were a basket of
deplorables. She said they were
irredeemable.
They were not America,
I mean its extraordinary
Brian cant, say MIKE Pence
wasnt ready for that they he KN
they were going to attack the
president personally.
This is example of what a
vice presidential candidate
needs to do until AL debate.
He is not there to represent or
defend himself
hes there to defend and go
after the top of the other
ticket.
Hillary Clinton had called Trump
supporters a basket of
deplorables and Vice President
Pence turned that into a great
moment in the debate at the
expense of TIM Kaine,
Brian Brett, that you can about
things. You can expect
thats. When someone comes at you
in a major debate and you could
not defend your own record,
she has to avoid this
tulsi gabbard took her apart
case in point watch.
Senator Harris says she is
proud of her record as a
prosecutor and that she will be
a prosecutor president,
but im deeply concerned about
this record.
I did the work of
significantly reforming the
criminal justice system of the
state of forty million people, which
became a national model for the
work that needs to be done,
and I am proud of that work.
The bottom line is Senator
Harris. When you were in a
position to make a difference. An
an impact in these peoples
lives. You did not
Brian. She went on to go
specifically through cases in
which evidence was withheld and
decisions were made for
political purports and Kamala
Harris had no response,
thats correct,
and that is because she was
playing in the details of
defense
whenever a candidate is forced
backwards and defending specific
tenets of their record thats,
not a good thing.
You want to be on offense
and the problem for Kamala
Harris across the debates. The
reason her campaign failed is
because she could never figure
out how to play offense on
issues.
She could never figure out where
she stood on issues, and so she
ended up running to the left on
almost everything which is not
true to herself
Brian right,
because the debate went off the
rails last time we dont know
how Joe Biden is going to defend
his forty seven years as owe pose touted
candidate. Is he pretending to be
now
now? He has to ask Kamala Harris
to digest all of that in a
month
she has not done many introduce,
so there is ainterviews.
There is a lot on the line
if he can get on offense. He.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.