Thank you for following our live updatespublished at 09:45 British Summer Time 8 October 2020
Thanks for following our live reporting on the US election vice-presidential debate - we're bringing it to a close now.
Here's a recap of what we saw and heard on Wednesday in Salt Lake City, Utah:
- The debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris was markedly more civil and ordered than last week's presidential debate. Voters on both sides of the political spectrum told the BBC they were pleased with the relative civility between the candidates.
- The candidates exchanged heated remarks on a range of policy issues including taxes, healthcare and climate change - however, both candidates also made remarks that were misleading or inaccurate
- The strongest disagreements were about President Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis - Pence defended the administration's record but Harris called it "the greatest failure of any presidential administration".
- The pair on stage were separated by glass barriers as a precaution from coronavirus
- Despite the policy issues discussed on both sides, a fly that landed on Pence's head generated the most excitement online
For more, you can read our reporter Anthony Zurcher's five takeaways from the debate. We'll be back next week with live coverage of the second presidential debate, and in the meantime you can also follow our live coronavirus coverage here.
The VP debate coverage was brought to you by our teams in the US and UK. The writers were Boer Deng, Rebecca Seales, Ritu Prasad, Max Matza, Tara McKelvey, Tom Gerken, Marianna Brady, Jessica Lussenhop, David Walker and Georgina Rannard. The editors were Vicky Baker, Matthew Davis and Helier Cheung.