Mike Pence Showed Just How Hard It Is to Defend Donald Trump – Mother Jones

... Pence repeatedly invoked the strength of the American economy for much of Trump's term, and highlighted the flawed recovery out of the Great Recession (which, as Harris noted, Biden was responsible for shepherding in the Obama administration). This was a slam-dunk case at one point—an argument that fit on the proverbial bumper sticker. But it's not 2019 anymore. The economy is a disaster, Disneyland is shut down, the airlines are in hell, most of the restaurants in my city are on the chopping block, and there's a looming eviction crisis that Washington is doing nothing to avert. At this point, trying to brag about the economy is only reminding voters how bad things have gotten—and how much worse they'll likely get...

https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/10/pence-debate-fail-to-defend-trump/