salt lake city republican vice president mike pence and democratic challenger kamala harris squared off on wednesday evening in salt lake city utah ahead of the nov 3 election here are some of key quotes from the debate which was moderated by usa today journalist susan pagethe coronavirus pandemicharris on january 28 the vice president and the president were informed about the nature of this pandemic they were informed that its lethal in consequence that it is airborne that it will affect young people and that it would be contracted because it is airborne and they knew what was happening and they didnt tell youasked about the covid19 death toll pence i want the american people to know that from the very first day president donald trump has put the health of america firstpence the reality is when you look at the biden plan it reads an awful lot like what president trump and i and our task force have been doing every step of the way it looks a little bit like plagiarismharris the american people have had to sacrifice far too much because of the incompetence of this administrationvaccineharris on vaccine if the public health professionals if dr fauci if the doctors tell us that we should take it ill be the first in line to take it absolutely but if donald trump tells us to take it im not taking itpence the fact that you continue to undermine public confidence in a vaccine if the vaccine emerges during the trump administration i think is unconscionable stop playing politics with peoples liveseconomic recoveryharris on the issue of the economy i think there couldnt be a more fundamental difference between donald trump and joe biden joe biden believes you measure the health and the strength of americas economy based on the health and the strength of the american worker and the american family on the other hand you have donald trump who measures the strength of the economy based on how rich people are doingpence more taxes more regulation banning fracking abolishing fossil fuel crushing american energy and economic surrender to china is a prescription for economic decline president trump and i will keep america growing the vshaped recovery thats underway right now will continue with four more years of president donald trumptaxespence on day one joe bidens going to raise your taxesharris joe biden has been very clear he will not raise taxes on anybody that who makes less than 400000 a yearforeign policyharris youve got to know who your adversaries are and keep them in check but what we have seen with donald trump is that he has betrayed our friends and embraced dictators around the world lets take for example russianaftapence everybody knows that nafta cost literally thousands of american factories to close we saw automotive jobs go south of the border president trump fought to renegotiate nafta and the united states mexico canada agreement is now the law of the land it