Mike Pence

Marie-Danielle Smith: As a sense of calm returned our minds and eyes could wander to the details—a soldier making the sign of the cross, the masked faces, a warm pair of mittens

Shannon Gormley: It wasn’t an insurrection, it was simply a few thousand homicidal people under the direction of the president after he told them to ’fight like hell’

Andray Domise: It wasn’t last week’s Trump/Biden debacle, but the surreal VP debate reflected almost nothing of the world outside the debate hall

So much depends upon a black insect resting against the white backdrop of an American politician’s hair

Kamala Harris combined assertiveness and ease, but both she and Mike Pence wriggled out of key questions. It was all so blessedly normal.

Paul Wells: There aren’t a lot of ways to politely defend the president. Enter the interrupting, truth-inverting funhouse mirror Mike Pence.

Scott Gilmore: The pundits theorized this crucial debate did not likely change many minds. It’s possible that women saw it differently.

Watch the VP debate right here at 9 p.m. ET

Andrew MacDougall: An election looms and the Liberals are rallying around abortion. It’s a sure sign that something has gone badly wrong.

Image of the week: The U.S. veep visibly squirmed as he swore in America’s first openly bisexual senator. But he kept his sense of humour