It took two days, but the press has finally figured out that Kaine did exactly what the Clinton campaign wanted, and needed:
1) interrupted every sound bite from Pence, so that there was no clear audio or the audio included a refutation- notice how the only quotes from Pence are of him denying that Trump said something Trump said? None of the prepared zingers have survived the debate. ( an exception to that is the “Mexican thing”- the full quote of which sounds dirty, as well as racist… but I can’t believe he meant to say that.)
2) set up the denials to add to the already prepared video of what Trump has said
3) only debated Trump, and ignored Pence.
brilliant strategy. let the pundits say Pence won- and then cream Trump and Pence for the next 4 news cycles.
Every point by Kaine was a ‘Have you stopped beating your wife?” moment. Pence could agree with Trump ( death wish) disagree with Trump ( what kind of ticket does that?) or lie (easily disproven.) He chose the third option, but was doomed no matter which he chose.
what fun to watch. Even many members of our community initially fell for it, and saw only the optics of the sacrifice of a pawn (the VP debate which no one watched) and not the checkmate which was to soon follow.