而副总统辩论周三晚上被认为更亲切，辩论主持人苏珊·佩奇不得不应对不断的干扰，尤其是来自副总统迈克·彭斯的干扰。
佩奇在活动开始时制定了辩论规则，这些规则得到了两个竞选团队的批准:九个主题，每个候选人两分钟不间断地回答主题问题，六分钟的讨论。在整个辩论过程中，《今日美国》记者向参议员卡马拉·哈里斯(Kamala Harris)和彭斯(Pence)强调，他们在回答她的问题时不会中断。
佩奇说:“我们想要一场生动活泼的辩论，但美国人也应该得到一场文明的讨论。”。
2020年10月7日，在盐湖城犹他大学校园的金斯伯里大厅，副总统迈克·彭斯、民主党副总统候选人卡马拉·哈里斯和主持人苏珊·佩奇在副总统辩论中同时发言。
在辩论的几个要点中，两位候选人都超过了分配给佩奇的时间，试图进入另一个问题或话题。在这些事件中，主持人说了声“谢谢”，试图让辩论倒退，但在某些情况下被忽略了。
根据一份非正式的辩论记录，她说了至少60次这句话来结束打断，大多数时间都是针对彭斯的。
观众在网上批评佩奇未能控制住候选人，而其他人则抨击彭斯公然无视她遵守规则的呼吁。佩奇的维基百科条目一度被编辑成“她不知道如何让迈克·彭斯停止说话。”
后来，佩奇和彭斯之间的事情变得紧张起来，她要求两位候选人都从国家安全话题上转移话题。在无视继续辩论的呼吁后，彭斯要求更多时间，但被佩奇拒绝。
“你们的竞选团队同意今晚总统辩论委员会的辩论规则。她说:“我来这里是为了执行它们，这涉及到从一个话题转移到另一个话题，给你们两个大致相等的时间，这是我努力做到的。”。
彭斯态度缓和了，然而，他无视了主持人几次要求停止打断的电话。
'Thank you': Susan Page struggled to keep vice presidential debate free of interruptions
While the vice presidentialdebateWednesday night was considered more cordial, debate moderator Susan Page had to deal with constant interruptions, particularly from Vice President Mike Pence.
Page laid out the rules of the debate, which were approved by both campaigns, at the beginning of the event: nine topics, two minutes for each candidate to answer the question on the topic without interruption, and six minutes of discussion. Throughout the debate, the USA Today reporter emphasized to Sen. Kamala Harris and Pence that they would be uninterrupted when they responded to her questions.
"We want a debate that is lively, but Americans also deserve a discussion that is civil," Page said.
Vice President Mike Pence, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris and moderator Susan Page all speak at the same time during the vice presidential debate, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
During several points during the debate, both candidates went over their allotted time with Page trying to get to another question or topic. During those incidents, the moderator said "thank you," to tried to steer the debate back, but on some occasions was ignored.
She said the phrase to end the interrupting at least 60 times, with most of the times directed at Pence, according to an unofficial transcript of the debate.
Viewers criticized Page online for failing to keep the candidates in check, while others slammed Pence for blatantly ignoring her calls to adhere to the rules. Page's Wikipedia entry at one point was edited to state, "She does not know how to get Mike Pence to stop talking."
Things got heated between Page and Pence later in the event when she asked both candidates to move on from the national security topic. After ignoring calls for the debate to move on, Pence asked for more time, which was denied by Page.
"Your campaigns agreed to the rules for tonight's debate with the Commission of Presidential Debates. I'm here to enforce them, which involves moving from one topic to another, giving roughly equal time to both of you which I'm trying hard to do," she said.
Pence relented, however, he ignored several future calls from the moderator to stop interrupting.
