Members of the FiveThirtyEight politics crew discuss what they’ll be paying attention to during tonight’s debate. Is the vice presidential debate more important than it has been in previous years, given the age of the presidential candidates and the threat of COVID-19?
Galen Druke is FiveThirtyEight’s podcast producer and reporter. @galendruke
Laura Bronner is a senior applied scientist at ETH Zürich and FiveThirtyEight’s former quantitative editor. @laurabronner
Sarah Frostenson is FiveThirtyEight’s former politics editor. @sfrostenson