October 5, 2016
FARMVILLE, Va. — In a presidential contest driven by big events, Donald Trump is running out of opportunities to rebound. The Republican’s running mate Mike Pence turned in a solid but fact-challenged performance in the second of four general-election debates, but it hardly changed the shape of a race that has been moving in Hillary […]
October 5, 2016
Vice presidential nominees Tim Kaine and Mike Pence were front and center on the debate stage Tuesday night, but the focus was on Hillary Clinton and, especially, Donald Trump. Kaine spent much of the evening trying to keep the conversation about Trump and his controversial statements; the Democratic vice presidential nominee referenced Trump 161 times […]
October 5, 2016
October 5, 2016
Tim Kaine came into the vice presidential debate with a clear goal: make Mike Pence own all of Trump’s most controversial moments. But Kaine was unable, with Pence successfully parrying his attacks as the debate dissolved into a string of interruptions and contradictions with each of the candidates peppering the other with rhetoric but neither […]
October 5, 2016
The first and only vice-presidential debate of 2016 was less a game-changer than a channel-changer, a snippy and probably inconsequential 90 minutes marginally won by Mike Pence – a confident, slightly smarmy debater very much in the mold of those calculating Washington, D.C. politicians who are destroying America. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s more voluble running […]
October 5, 2016
FARMVILLE, Va. — Republicans knocked Tim Kaine’s interruptions. Democrats said Mike Pence barely lifted a finger in defense of Donald Trump. And the two campaigns prepared for the next major pivot point in the race: Sunday’s rematch between Trump and Hillary Clinton. The post-debate spin from the Clinton and Trump campaigns made it abundantly clear: […]
October 5, 2016
Until Tuesday night, Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine and Republican Gov. Mike Pence had never met each other face to face. Which was probably a good thing. For 90 minutes on stage at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, Kaine went after Pence like an irate terrier nipping at a dignified, white-haired Afghan Hound. Polls show that […]
October 5, 2016
A debate that turned largely on how well the vice presidential nominees defended their running mates hit its peak when Sen. Tim Kaine declared that “six times tonight” he had challenged Gov. Mike Pence to respond to Donald Trump’s statements and “in all six cases he’s refused to defend.” “Don’t put words in my mouth,” […]
October 5, 2016
Mike Pence narrowly prevailed over Tim Kaine in the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night, according to an instant poll. Forty-eight percent of debate watchers said the Republican Indiana governor won the showdown vs. 42 percent who thought Kaine was better, a CNN/ORC instant poll found. Kaine spent most of the debate attacking Donald Trump and […]
October 5, 2016
When Mike Pence and Tim Kaine met for their lone debate Tuesday, the truth couldn’t even emerge unscathed from the introductions. Pence, seated at Longwood University, thanked “Norwood University” for hosting Tuesday’s event, and truth continued to take a beating from there. Over the next 90 minutes, both Pence and his Democratic rival Tim Kaine […]