CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A debate was held Wednesday night between the two vice-presidential candidates, Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, and one local professor is sharing his thoughts.
Professor Phillip Braun of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University called the debate, "boring."
"Typical debate, but I don’t think anything stood out in the debate and I don’t think there was any winner in the debate," he said.
Professor Braun said Pence and Harris didn’t offer up anything new to voters, just repeating campaign "talking points."
He said he had been hoping to hear each of their answers about whether they'd talked to their running mates, who are in their mid-to-late 70s, about any future possible need to step aside.
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Professor Braun said he understands why they dodged the question.
"They were trying to be humble relative to their presidential candidate, not trying to make their presidential candidate look old or ill or anything like that," he said.
Braun suggests the dullness of the debate was why there was so much talk afterward about the fly that rested for more than two minutes on Vice President Pence's head.
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"I think that highlights how boring the debate was. Nothing really stood out or was distinctive from what people have already heard from the campaigns," he said.
Professor Braun also thinks the debate moderator should have taken more control and that the Vice President may have further hurt the Trump campaign with women by talking over the two women on the stage with him.