All the Moments That Mattered in Last Night’s VP Debate

Live commentary from Sarah Stankorb, Garance Franke-Ruta, Max Ufberg, and Andrea González-Ramírez

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Garance Franke-Ruta: Hi, I’m Garance, executive editor of GEN. Tonight’s live-from-Utah face-off is the vice presidential debate in name only. In truth, tonight is the coronavirus debate.

Since Donald Trump revealed last Friday that he caught the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the 2020 campaign has become a giant contact tracing investigation. An ever-widening circle of people who have had contact with the White House or Trump — or with people who had contact with them — have been diagnosed with Covid-19. Indeed, as I was writing this introduction reporters announced two more names: the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps and Crede Bailey, head of the White House security office.

Here’s our up-to-date list of everyone in Trump’s Covid-19 cluster.

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