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The first and only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election could’ve been a taste of normalcy — a now-exotic blandness in a brain-melting, sanity-bombarding year. 000

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00:00And I want everyone to know who puts on the uniform of law enforcement every day,

00:04that President Trump and I stand with you.

00:08Mike Pence's left eye, as well as a plucky little fly,

00:12were the breakout stars of the vice presidential debate on Wednesday night,

00:15both becoming hot topics on social media.

00:18Pence's left eye appeared to be bloodshot,

00:20and in light of the outbreak of COVID-19 at the White House over the last week,

00:24Twitter lit up with journalists, epidemiologists, doctors, and Hollywood stars

00:28wondering if the vice president had conjunctivitis,

00:31or rather pink eye, one of the symptoms of the novel coronavirus.

00:35Thousands of people, including the likes of former news anchor Katie Couric

00:38and former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt,

00:41openly questioned whether the vice president had conjunctivitis

00:44and linked to medical articles and news articles on pink eye

00:47being a possible symptom of COVID-19.

00:50At least 27 people in President Donald Trump's orbit have tested positive for the coronavirus

00:54amid an outbreak at the White House.

00:56However, Pence has thus far tested negative.

00:59With the debate between Pence and Senator Kamala Harris proceeding in a relatively civil manner

01:03in comparison to the first chaotic presidential debate between Trump and Joe Biden,

01:08social media was looking for any distraction to let the time fly.

01:12And oh, it did.

01:13Later in the debate, Pence's eye was outshined with a fly landing on the vice president's head

01:18for several minutes, which ensued a more lighthearted social media conversation around the debate.

01:23Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden even got in on the jokes with a link to flywillvote.com.

01:29And Stephen Colbert couldn't resist a jab or two at the incident during the late show.

01:33Listen, all jokes aside, thoughts and prayers to that fly's family.

01:37It's got to quarantine for two weeks now.

01:39And in addition to even becoming a fundraising point for the Biden campaign,

01:42which immediately started selling truth over flies, fly swatters for $10,

01:46the fly inspired a slew of brand new tribute Twitter accounts

01:50and was even brought up on some news networks post-debate coverage.

01:54For more on this story, fly on over to THR.com.

01:57For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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