Vice presidential debate seen by 37 million viewers

The Indiana governor remained calm and cool during the 90-minute exchange, while Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, of “whipping out that Mexican thing again”.

Richmond Times Dispatch political reporter and columnist Jeff Schapiro agreed, but said Kaine still achieved his goal. Former President Bill Clinton, for example, his wife’s running mate “did just fine”.

As Donald Trump opened up his Wednesday campaign rally in Nevada, he bragged about how much “credit” he says he’s getting over his running mate’s performance at the vice-presidential debate.

Pence: Donald Trump and I would never support legislation that punished women who made the heartbreaking choice to end a pregnancy.

Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump carry the heavy baggage of damage-laden histories, giving plenty of opportunities to find negatives about their campaigns or characters.

Latino scholars and activists are criticizing Republican Mike Pence for referring to “that Mexican thing”, at the vice presidential debate as he tried to brush aside criticism of Donald Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants.

But during the debate, Kaine mostly focused on things that Trump had said or done.

Reports even suggested that Trump himself was upset that his running mate upstaged him.

Clinton had memorised Trump’s past statements down to his very language: “He even said: ‘Well, if there were nuclear war in East Asia, well that’s fine. It does not put the GOP (an acronym used by the Republican Party) ticket in a worse place, but tonight’s debate will do little to change the conversation”, wrote Brookings Institution senior fellow John Hudak.

“I can say this”, he added, “If we get along, and Russian Federation went out with us and knocked the hell out of ISIS, that’s OK with me, folks”. Instead, Trump is pretending like he won the vice presidential debate and Gov. Mike Pence does not exist. Trump said “some”, rather than “many”, and he prefaced that by saying, “I assume”. And the failed foreign policy of which Hillary Clinton was the architect during her four years as Secretary of State.

Trump is sure to be peppered with questions in the next debate about his tax records, as Pence was Tuesday.

While many topics related to morality were discussed in the first VP debate, in our imagined second vice presidential debate it would be possible to get more deeply into, well, vice.

That pattern is likely to continue on Monday at the next presidential debate, Democrats said.

“Six times tonight I have said to Governor Pence, I can’t imagine how you can defend your running mate’s position on one issue after the next”.

But Tuesday night was different.

“I think he has run an insult-driven campaign and I think that what Tim Kaine did tonight was to challenge Mike Pence to try to defend the hateful campaign”.

Pence: “There are criminal aliens in this country, Tim, who have come into this country illegally who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives”. “When he was in Congress, he said that HIV and AIDS funding should not be dispersed unless it was also spent – federal dollars spent to try to cure people from being gay”.