It has been an extraordinary few weeks in US presidential politics – not least with President Trump's illness.

Meanwhile, it was the understudies who were in the hot seat for the vice presidential debate.

To discuss the vice presidential debate and what it means for the presidential race, The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, joins US editor Oliver Wiseman and editor of the journal American Greatness, Chris Buskirk.

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