Neither Mike Pence nor Tim Kaine is considered a huge personality on the same level as those two, and for the most part they’ve been largely under-the-radar in the Vice-Presidential race.
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“He is there to absolutely do what these vice presidential nominees are doing and what Tim Kaine has been doing on the stump nearly exclusively, which is to attack [Republican nominee] Donald Trump”. “Mike Pence’s record shows that it could happen”, Clinton’s campaign tweeted today, hinting at the Republican VP’s strategy. The Republicans would rather the debate turn on a contrast between Pence and Kaine rather than Clinton and Trump.
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence mocked the media hysteria surrounding Donald Trump’s candidacy on Monday night. The other no-show Senator was Bernie Sanders, who was campaigning for Clinton that day.
“We expect them to throw a lot of mud”, said Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook, ahead of the debate in Farmville, Virginia.
Although there will be just a few hundred people seated inside the debate hall on the university campus, tens of millions more will be watching the nationally broadcast event. “The American people have spoken and it’s clear who tonight’s biggest loser is, Hillary Clinton”, that post said.
The Indiana governor will also have to justify his own actions and views, many of which contradict Trump’s. “Donald Trump, in particular, said he was going to offload most of the work of the presidency, in fact, onto the vice president”.
A woman holds campaign signs in support of Hillary Clinton.
Pence is best known for the staunchly conservative and evangelical agenda he pushed as a US congressman for 12 years, and the nationwide controversy during his one term as governor over a religious freedom law he signed in 2015 that sparked a backlash from gay rights advocates and businesses who slammed it as discriminatory against LGBT Americans.
Shortly after joining Hillary Clinton’s campaign in July, the vice-presidential candidate said that April 16, 2007, when he was governor of Virginia, continues to affect him. Quijano will ask an opening question and Pence and Kaine will each have two minutes to respond. A mild-mannered Midwesterner with strong conservative credentials, he who previously has tried to soften Trump’s criticism of a military family and toughen the businessman’s stance on Russian Federation. He could also be asked to explain why she took paid speeches from Wall Street or set up her controversial private email server at the State Department.
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He will also likely try to frustrate Pence’s efforts to move the campaign to sounder political ground by raising Trump’s tirades over against former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who says she was insulted by the GOP nominee during his time as a beauty pageant impresario. Dan Quayle of Virginia: “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy”.
