Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence Tuesday night faced off in the only vice-presidential debate in the run-up to the U.S. election, clashing over national security, immigration and other issues.
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Trump also praised Pence’s performance, declaring that his running mate had the greatest victory in the history of vice presidential debates. “They think in their focus groups that if they attack, they can win”.
This time, all Kaine had to do was confront Pence with his running mate’s behavior.
“I can’t imagine how Gov. Pence can defend the insult-driven, me-first style of Donald Trump”, said Kaine, the Virginia senator and Hillary Clinton’s No. 2.
“Mike Pence didn’t want to defend Donald Trump, and as Senator Kaine said, if you can’t defend the person at the top of the ticket, how can you ask people to vote for you”, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told reporters outside her house.
The lone showdown between the IN governor Mike Pence and Sen.
“I was going after Donald Trump, and Mike Pence kind of was going after Trump with me”.
Bill Clinton – hardly doing any favors for his wife, who has pledged to defend and expand Obamacare – called the president’s signature legislation “the craziest thing in the world”, just days before the former secretary of state and the NY billionaire meet for a second debate showdown.
Pence’s blunt comments on Russia, more in line with thinking by traditional Republicans, came in response to Kaine’s charge that Trump was too cozy with the Russian leader. “That we’re weaker in this world not just because of the president but because of Hillary Clinton’s policies”.
In the more than ten years the two men served together, Aderholt and Pence became close friends.
Gwen Ecklund, Republican chairwoman in Crawford County, Iowa, said Republicans in this conservative western Iowa county have told her they’d like to see Pence at the top of the ticket.
His running mate echoed his attacks on Pence and Trump. If you missed it, Tim Kaine and Mike Pence gave us about what we expected in terms of entertainment value, but – and this is a big but – it actually taught us a lot about this election.
Conservatives who do not support Trump liked Pence’s view. Deadspin Senior Editor Ashley Feinberg joins us to explore how the key to winning the VP debate was getting into Trump’s head one way or another.
Surprised? Same. But in between the policy platforms and pontificating, these gentlemen reminded us of some important lessons that we really need to keep in mind until November 8.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has appealed to anti-Russian sentiments in the United States by criticising Trump, who often praises Putin, as being too cozy with the Kremlin leader and questioned the Republican’s business interests in Russia.
The discussion took a sour turn when the issue of Trump’s tax records was raised.
Kaine drew Pence’s ire by hearkening back to a remark from former Republican President Ronald Reagan that some fool or maniac with a nuclear weapon could trigger a catastrophic event.
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A report by The New York Times revealed that Trump had reported a $916 million loss in 1995 which may have enabled him to avoid paying federal income taxes for 18 years.
