Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said viewers planning to watch Wednesday's debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, could be in for a "tremendously powerful clash of ideas and policies."
Gingrich made his comments Tuesday in a column posted on the Fox News website.
"The contrast between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris's San Francisco radicalism is so great that this should be a debate focused on issues far more than personalities," he said. "The stage is set for a truly historic encounter."
He noted Pence favors supporting the police and locking up criminals.
"Meanwhile, Harris supports efforts to get criminals out of jail. In June, Harris advocated for the public to fund bail for arrested suspects implicated in the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis," he said.
"Vice President Pence is strongly pro-life while Sen. Harris is committed to repealing the Hyde Amendment which protects taxpayers from having to pay for abortion. She would support tax paid abortions — and it is not clear if that would include in the ninth month as many Democrats advocate."
And he noted that Pence supports constitutional conservative judicial nominees. Gingrich noted that Harris opposed all three conservatives nominated by President Donald Trump to the Supreme Court.
"The gap between the conservative vice president and the radical senator from San Francisco is so great this could be a tremendously powerful clash of ideas and policies," he said.
Jeffrey Rodack ✉
Jeffrey Rodack, who has nearly a half century in news as a senior editor and city editor for national and local publications, has covered politics for Newsmax for nearly seven years.
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