Pence, Kaine trade sharp words, interruptions at VP debate
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Tuesday's vice presidential debate, billed as an understated affair between two boring candidates, has had fireworks from the start, with Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Penceinterrupting each other and trading insults.
Kaine and Pence came out aggressively attacking Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, respectively, and of running "insult-driven" campaigns.
Kaine, who in his opening statement said the thought of Trump as president “scares” him and his wife “to death,” launched into an extended attack that labeled the GOP presidential nominee a racist and a bully who has profited from taking advantage of ordinary Americans.
“Donald Trump always puts himself first,” said Kaine, a Virginia senator. “He built a business career ... on the backs of the little guy, and as candidate, he started his campaign with a speech where he called Mexicans rapists and criminals and pursued the discredited and outrageous lie that the president of the United States wasn’t born in the U.S."
“It is so painful that we suggest we go back to these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of this country and I can’t imagine how Gov. Pence can defend the insult-driven, selfish, me-first style of Donald Trump,” Kaine said, criticizing Trump for his suggestions thatBarack Obama was not born in the United States.
Pence, Indiana's governor, responded by accusing Clinton and Kaine of running their own “insult-driven” campaign, and he blamed the former secretary of State for chaos in the Middle East.
“We’re watching hour by hour in Syria as the result of the weak and failed foreign policy that Hillary Clinton helped lead and create,” Pence said. “The newly emboldened aggression in Russia—"
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Kaine interjected to say Trump and Pence have praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a great leader.
Quijano told Kaine to allow Pence to finish.
“I must have hit a nerve here,” Pence said. “The campaign of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine has been an avalanche of insults.”
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