As voting day nears, the 2016 presidential race between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton is neck-and-neck.
Taking the stage tonight are their vice presidential candidates, and the tight race certainly adds historical significance to tonight’s debate.
Tonight’s vice presidential debate pits a former radio host who’s described himself as “Rush Limbaugh on decaf,” Mike Pence, against a harmonica-playing former missionary whose aw-shucks style has spawned a thousand dad jokes, Tim Kaine.
Some things to watch for in Tuesday’s debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
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SAY WHO?
Pence and Kaine have campaigned full tilt for more than two months now, but plenty of people still don’t have a feel for them. In a recent Associated Press-GfK poll, more than half of registered voters said they didn’t know enough about Kaine to venture an opinion about him, and about 44 percent said the same for Pence. This is their big moment to show they’re qualified to be next in line to the president.
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THE MISSION
Pence and Kaine have to decide whether to focus more on one another or on Trump and Clinton. Watch how they toggle between the two tasks. Look for Pence, who calls Clinton “the most dishonest person ever to seek the presidency,” to zero in on lines of attack that Trump hardly touched in the first debate, such as questions about whether Clinton played favorites as secretary of state with donors to the Clinton Foundation. Kaine will try to act as a character witness for Clinton and go after Trump, of whom the senator says his “only recognized passion in his life has been for himself.”
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THE TAX MAN
Pence could well be asked about Trump’s tax strategy after The New York Times reported over the weekend that the billionaire businessman used a clever strategy to avoid any federal income tax liability for 18 years, which Trump says was his fiduciary responsibility as a businessman. With an audience of millions, will Pence echo Trump’s claims that he used the tax laws “brilliantly?” or try some other tack?
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AMEN CORNER
Expect both Pence, an evangelical, and Kaine, a former Catholic missionary, to showcase their religious backgrounds in an effort to appeal to different constituencies. Pence likes to say of himself: “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican — in that order.”
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TOO CLEVER?
Past vice presidential debates have provided some memorable lines. Republican Bob Dole’s cutting quip in 1976 about all the Americans killed in “Democrat wars” did him no good. Democrat Lloyd Bentsen’s 1988 putdown of Republican Dan Quayle with his “You’re no Jack Kennedy” line still singes. Third-party candidate James Stockdale’s rambling 1992 opening questions of “Who am I? Why am I here?” captured a candidate who was clearly out of his element. Four years ago, Vice President Joe Biden’s denunciations of Republican Paul Ryan’s budget math as “a bunch of malarkey” showed considerably more spark than did President Barack Obama’s leaden performance against rival Mitt Romney in the leadoff presidential debate.
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MODERATION
CBS News’ Elaine Quijano will be under the microscope as moderator, especially since Trump has complained that NBC’s Lester Holt, the moderator of last week’s debate, was biased against him.
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WHO WILL WIN?
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Tim Kaine-clown, Hillary-criminal
Neither one in all four players are wanted in the White House to lead Americans
Back that up Katherine atleast Trump and Pence has BALLS That’s more then we can say about the _Traitor an we know THE BENGHAZI BUTCHER Don’t have any. A money hungry W.
Right you are!
Hillary is a career Criminal, a pathological LIAR, and Corrupt to the core. She want open borders, amnesty for illegals, she want more Syrian refugees, she want to continue Obama’s failed policy, and Obama care. She lied to the FBI and to Congress. She is unfit to be president.
I’ll vote for Trump and Fence anytime.
Thank you. She is even worst as you said. She is absolute DANGER for this Country because with here in a few Years we will have to pray to ALLLAAAAHHHH and the Camels.
Yo mi familia y mis amigos tambien.
It means: Me and my family and friends too.
Well who do think should run? The other have nothing to give.
I guess you are speaking for yourself not me and many others.Donald Trump for president
Voted after the fact, but man did Kaine look like Tim Insane. If that is one Heart beat from the white house job I would rather have Johnson. Mike Pence looked and sounded professional, intelligent, and ready for the job, Insane sounded like a spoiled child who just had his cookie taken away. Trump Pence 2016
tim kaine
I have watched him dance around on the platform when out thwer compaigning i think what he needsa to do iscontact therocketts and dance with them. as for hillary if she was anybody else she would be behinfd bars.. she has paid off james comey and bill paid off the attorney general andcomey won’t indict her i just wolnder what our country iscoming too. i was hoping pence would bring up benzhiza and the death of those 4 men i would srill on her and keepit upbecausesooner or later she will loose her cool and completely show heer real person. i get emails all thetime shehates women andif shegets inthewhite house ladies look out she is a killer. i’m looking for her to turn intoa frog when shedoes i will know she finally got around to telling the truth ,. john
Tim Kaine looks like a character off of SNL.
OMG, that made me laugh and it’s so true.
He was rude, and mannerless. No match for a real Gentleman. Exposed an ugly side, common, and rather trashy. For sure, we want no part of him or Hillary!!!
That’s what Democrats are all about
Kaine has a new nickname, Mr. Eyebrow .
Kaine was so rude and unprofessional. He has that one eye raised as he speaks and was out of control.
YES!
Without a doubt Pence will be the victor – Kaine looks like a mamby pamby weasel.
John I so agree with your comment.. Pence will eat Kaine alive tonight I do believe…
Absolutely !!even judging the book by its cover pence looks like he KICKS ASS ! Kaine looks creepy and offensive like a sick twisted crazy Predator PENCE IS GONNA NAIL HIM HE GONNA PROVE WHAT A CRAZY IDIOT HE IS
Thank you I was thinking the same thing. CREEPY PREDATOR
Typo? It’s Namby-Pamby
MaxVertas – according to you.
I do know somewhat of both candidates and would feel secure should Governor Pence be called upon to conclude Mr. Trump’s
presidency for some reason. Mr. Kaine would be the same disaster as Mrs. Clinton.
Her first name is HITLERy!!!!!!!!!! VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP IF YOU VALUE YOUR FREEDOM,LIBERTY,LIFE,
CHRISTIANITY,CONSTITUTION,AND BILL OF RIGHTS.OTHERWISE PREPARE FOR GOVERNMENT TYRANNY
UNDER THE HITLERy REGIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot believe the hatred coming from an Obvious Donald Trump support(s) supporter.
I feel for the Americans who have been led down such a slippery road of believing in Trump. He is a Pathological liar and con artist of the worst kind. I hope those who are blindly following Trump wake up and exercise their common sense before the country collapses like the Roman Empire!
Pence will crush him.
Kaine rides in the clown ????.Kaine will be a whipping post for Pence.
With the moderators in question as to their leanings as in the last debate, what difference does it make? I have already decided and so has the rest of the country. These debates are so biased, there will be no challenge to Hillary. She should answer to the widows of Benghazi, let those folks ask the questions and confront her. Let the families harmed by the email leaks ask the questions. A man in syria was executed because of her. Let the women harrassed by Hillary ask her why she attacked them and their character to cover Billie Boys tracks. Let the woman who was 12 years old ask Hillary why a man who raped her was let off because Hillary said a little girl asked for it. ETC!! Some candidate of the dems and we have not even discussed the pay to play scheme of the Clinton Foundation. Or the dead bodies piled up at the doorstep of the Clintons. What a woman, a bonified psychopath liar! And she is running for president? Where are the principled souls of this country that this is possible? Is everyone in DC and our government corrupt? Guess so considering most definitely the FBI head and DOJ and BO and his administration, the dem wit dems and the pretend republican rinos anyway.
SO right on. Keep on with your message
Susan, Totally agree with everything you said. I can’t imagine how she is doing so well in the Polls when she has all this baggage behind her. I went to lunch with several friends on Monday and not a one of them are voting for Hillary – so why do the Polls show her neck-in-neck with Trump? And, her dismissal to the survivors of the Benghazi victims was totally uncalled for – calling them liars and blaming her actions on an internet video. Yes, something did happen to her brain when she had the blood clot – and to think she’s a possible President of our Country is really scary!
There was something wrong with her brain before the brain clot.
The reason Killary is doing so well in the polls is because most if not all of the pollsters tilt very far to the left!! Most of them are probably going to vote for the lying cheating witch!!
GrannyJo-
First, let me state that Pence will wipe the floor with Kaine, especially if he tried to defend The Liar to ANY degree.
Second, i’ll tell you EXACTLY why The Liar and The Donald are allegedly “tied” in the polls. The wealthy, the super-rich, these are they fully on-board with the satanic NWO/OWG globalists who want to eliminate all national borders(and nations) and rule everyone with an iron fist. The Liar is fully on-board with the OWG agenda, and has been for DECADES. They’re both satan-worshippers. As Christ says of the evil one, “He is a liar and a murderer from the Beginning,” so naturally, the NWO monsters back their OWG candidate, and will lie in the polls without qualm. The pollsters have been CAUGHT deliberately skewing polls. The reason? When they attempt to steal the election by the usual demon-cratic methods – multiple voting by individuals, voting in the name of dead people, and outright hacking of electronic voting machines – the “results” will then be “plausible” because of the lying polling data. This will deceive the sheeple once more, especially the ones that rely ONLY on the teevee to tell them what’s real and what’s not.
The reason she is doing so good is all the people on entitlements will vote for her, and that is close to 50%
I am praying for the Republican ticket, but this whole election is the biggest sham in the history of this country. Trump bites on every bit of bait that is thrown to him. He cannot help himself. He gets up in the polls, and then shoots himself in the foot. Hillary is so scandalous that she is not fit for anything, but prison, but her crime family is behind murders, scandals, money laundering, and it has been made legal by their strong-arming of the DOJ. She abhors people like me as “deplorable”, and has demeaned those who get out of college as those who don’t know how to work, because they are living in their parent’s basements. She cannot possibly be the president of the whole country. I cannot respect her as my president. And the third party candidates are jokes. Johnson doesn’t know about anything foreign, and the Communist-Green candidate is a no-brainer. We might as well have Bernie Sanders. This is the most disappointing election ever. There is no choices. I am sick of watching the news. The only hope is Congress and the Senate, and they have let us down this past couple of years.
Mike Pence will win the debate hands down, Tim Kaine is way too wish you-washy. Mike Pence is straight to the point, no nonsense.
Hillary is a devil , Any body who would vote for her knowing her background, must be deplorable.
Wednesday morning, the liberal media will say Kaine won, no matter what happens tonight.
Pence will be very calm and mop the floor with Kaine Watch Kaine to see if he makes gestures like Crooked hillary did to make a suggestion to the moderator.
Pence should win but like the first presidential debate it is rigged! Trump did not get a chance to show what he knows because he was baited by the moderator, Hilary, and the main stream media. He was not prepared and she was able to get under his skin. Our nation is in danger and they talked about so called remarks about a Miss Universe candidate and the Birther issue. If Trump tries to compete with her in the gutter, she will win! She is an expert at it and that is all she has. Hopefully, Pence will not do the same thing with Kane.
Go mike pence show them how much better we are!!!
Her first name is HITLERy!!!! Vote for Donald Trump if you value your life,freedom,liberty,Christianity,constitution,and bill of rights.
Otherwise prepare for tyranny under a HITLERy regime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pence Should win as he is an X talk show host, Caine is an X bleeding heart Missionary that thinks he so smart that he speaks some Spanish.
it seems to me that there is an old line from a ‘DUKE” movie that seems to prove true “prayer changes a lot of things, but it won’t beat a faster draw” We in deed rap what we sow. there had better be some Trump seeds sown in this country. The debate will not be a debate between vice presidet candiates, it will be talking points on one side and substance on the other and it will be according to what you want to believe who will stand on substance. Pense is substance to me and kaine is talk from what i have seen so far, so see how it goes.
jerry holbrock-
Pense is substance to me and kaine is talk from what i have seen so far, so see how it goes.
An excellent observation. Thanks!
But i believe i know why The Liar selected him as a running mate; he’s a Jesuit, perfectly on-board with the Black Pope – oh, and his name rhymes with “Cocaine,” which she’s probably still addicted to.
Come to think of it, there are quite a few drug names ending in “caine;” mostly numbing agents, right?
Hopefully, Kaine will not increase the numbers of those “Comfortably Numb.”
I can only hope that Pense does a great job in the debate tonight…..Trump needs to slow down and get his point across about how the democrats will destroy America……….Goooo Trump/Pense
I can’t understand why the media are so pumped up about Trump not paying Income tax. Everything he claimed is legal under the tax law, which by the way Trump did not write the IRS rules. I do not know one single person that would pay income tax if they had a legal IRS reason that said they did not need to pay. I am a Tax Professional, and I tell you every client wants to pay as little income tax as possible. One of the first things my clients say is make sure you give me all the breaks I am entitled too.
No one thinks about all the other taxes that Trump is required to pay and is paying just like all the rest of us.
In fact, the more business you conduct the more you pay.
When Pence speaks I really feel that he is honest. I just get a very good vibe from him. Tim Kaine, I don’t know much about him but there’s something about him that I just don’t like. Can’t out my finger on it.
For the life of me, I don’t understand her being ahead in any poll. I’ve concluded that they are liberal polls, nobody with any intelligence would want her as president. She has lied, cheated and paid off so many people to do her bidding. Pray for Trump and Pence. If Hillary is president, the far left liberal agenda will be pushed down our throats. There will be no escape and no more freedoms as we know them. Hillary stated one time that Republicans were her worst enemy. How pathetic! She is living in a bizarre world with her cronies and movie star friends.Don’t let her get near the Whitehouse.(She’ll clean everything out of it!) Please vote Trump/Pence. God bless the new USA we will have on Nov 8th.
I hold these truths to be self evident.
If Hillary is elected, then the American People do not care about honesty and justice.
Nope, just welfare!
If I talk against Hillary here, they say Ihve a duplicate comment, which I do not.
Trump is right when he says the system is “rigged”. The Republican and Democratic parties fear him because he will upset the status quo. You hear about dead people registered to vote as well as illegal aliens. Don’t the American people see and hear this? What is wrong with the Democratic party? Why do they need to resort to this cheating? Can’t they win an election fair and square?
You hit the nail on the head my friend, I am worried that the voting machines will be fixed to benefit Hillary Rotten Clinton. If that is the case, Trump won’t accept it like Mitt Romney did. He has the money to investigate and prosecute.
You are soooooo right Carolyn. Trump needs address issues.. We are ready to make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
For the next debate I think trump should ask Hillary to switch podiums at the very start of the debate and watch her squirm out of that one!
Speak for yourself Katherine Hopkins. There are lots of us that want Trump and Pence in the White House , Though I’m sure it probably will need an exterminator and a good cleaning. If you don’t like them that’s fine ,you have that right. But so do the rest of us.
Your so right Olene and thank you for the info . But since The Clintons’ used the same system on their taxes , where is the medias reporting on them. It’s alright for them , but not Trump. A great big B.S. And to Katherine Hoskins. Speak for yourself Lady . You sound like you should pay more attention to the news, how many Americans are voting Trump and Pence into the White House ? So learn not to generalize. If you don’t like Trump and Pence in the White House, You can always move. You have a right to your opinion , but not to speak for other Americans, I am an American, and I can’t wait till they are in there , I am also educated and a woman, mother , grandmother and Great Grand Grandmother, And according to Hitlary one of the deplorables.
Who will win the VP debate this eve ? What do the polls predict ? How long after said debate will before/after debate polls influence voters? Who really gives a rip ? Being politically based elections have been provably subject to being “rigged” in one form or another, pre eve of election polls are even more susceptible to “rigging” in all its forms. I recall a presidential election of many years ago, wherein a guy by the name of THOMAS DEWEY was front page DECLARED the newly elected President by a New York newspaper who withheld distribution of said declaration . . . so as to be the first paper out A M day after election . . . only to discover the other guy had won even though election eve polls had DECLARED DEWEY would . . . WIN WIN WIN.
Mmm wonder who the organized gambling entities are betting on will win the 2016 Presidential election . . . (Donald ? Hillary?). . . and what odds they’re offering on one or the other winning or losing ?
Last night, I saw an interview of an African-AMerican woman, who was a life-long Democrat, say that she is voting for Trump. When asked why she would vote for Trump who showed very little presidential stance over Clinton. Her reply: “You can teach Mr. Trump on how to act presidential and be more dignified, but you can’t teach conscience. Clinton has no conscience.” Well said!
As for Kaine, anyone who professes to be a Catholic, a missionary and a teacher, who would throw away his religious convictions over a political position is no Christian in my book. He is a hypocrite!
TruChristian-
Great points. Thanks for bringing them to our attention.
Sometimes i look at Kaine and expect to see sharpened fangs instead of teeth when he opens his mouth. He has wolf eyes.
Of course, anyone who willfully allies him-or-herself with evil is going to be tainted by it, if not fully consumed, so i pity his future.
NOBODY WANTS HILLARY OR HER VP. HELL SHE CAN’T EVEN GET PEOPLE TO HER RALLIES. SHE’S DEAD AS IN THE WORD STINKIN DEAD.
Timid “Milquetoast” Kaine. YUUUUCCCCKKK! (To quote Don Martin.)
I have high expectation that Pence will win, I don’t know him but I have faith that GOD will give Mr. Pence words to speak that will give him the victory.
PENCE WILL WIN B/C HE’S GOT INTEGRITY, POISE, WISDOM AND HAS A POSITIVE ‘TRUE’ MESSAGE TO CONVEY. IT’S JUST AMAZING TO ME THAT MR. TRUMP AND MR. PENCE ARE STILL STANDING AFTER THE OBAMA-CLINTON OWNED LIBERAL MEDIA ARE ATTACKING FROM EVERY ANGLE. SO UNFAIR AND CROOKED. IF HRC WINS, WE’RE IN FOR FOUR MORE YEARS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S HORRIBLE AGENDA FOR OUR COUNTRY. WE’LL BE DOOMED, FOLKS. NO MORE FREEDOMS. OUR COUNTRY WILL BE GIVEN TO EVERYONE BUT AMERICANS. IT WILL BE COMMUNISM WITH SATAN AT THE HELM. GOD BLESS AMERICA. PLEASE.
Simply because Hillary Rotten Clinton picked Kaine, all his creditability is gone. We all know what a worthless human being she and Bill are. I better watch out what I say or I may wind up dead like poor Foster and all the others. The worse part is when she looked those poor parents who lost their son in Benghazi right in the eye and lied to them about some crappy video that offended the Muslim trash. I would not vote for her to be a dog catcher. GOD BLESS AMERICA
I like pence.??
I like Pence
Like his running mate, Kaine is a “loose cannon” & I quote HIL LIAR Y………he’s losing, he’s rude, he keeps shooting his mouth off with bullshit! SHUT UP, PUSSY KAINE & LET PENCE SPEAK IN THIS DEBATE…….MODERATOR HAS NO CONTROL