Kaine’s plan: Turn Pence into Trump

[DonViejo]

One Senate ally calls on Kaine to make Pence 'own every bit of Trump’s radical, racist, misogynist agenda.'

By Burgess Everett

10/04/16 05:05 AM EDT

FARMVILLE, Va. — Democrats are counting on Tim Kaine to help stretch Donald Trump’s bad week into a bad month on Tuesday. But there’s a major difference between Trump and his running mate: Mike Pence knows how to stick to the script.

The Virginia senator’s job is to make the Indiana governor uncomfortable defending Trump, whether it’s the business mogul’s $900 million reported loss in 1995, his feud with a former beauty queen or his proposal to build a wall on the United States’ southern border. Trump is wounded, Democrats say, and the lone vice-presidential debate, to be held in this rural town, is an opportunity for Kaine to go for the jugular.

Yet as Trump was going off-script over the weekend and imitating Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia and arguing that she’s not loyal to Bill Clinton, Kaine was preparing for a much different challenge. Pence will already have his talking points down on Tuesday evening — and getting him to deviate could prove nearly impossible. “He says the same things over and over again,” said former Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.), who played Pence in 2012 mock debates for the Indiana governor’s race. “It wasn’t very hard to play Mike Pence.”

The showdown in Central Virginia offers a major pivot point in the race. Since becoming his party’s vice-presidential nominee, Kaine has concentrated nearly all of his political attacks on Trump, and Pence must effectively parry the Democrat’s attempts to make him own each of Trump’s controversial proposals and soundbites.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/pence-kaine-vp-debate-229068#ixzz4M9kGtYzT

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1. 3 hours to go. It think that's correct. Cannot wait!

Another alt-right beat down.

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2. As was pointed out here today - Pence has radio experience

He will be fast on his feet

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3. Pence is the only candidate for the republithugs that has actual government experience.

I would like Kain to emphasize that, and the disaster Pence has been for Indiana. The lower wages working people of Indiana have compared to Democratic run states. The slower economic growth of Indiana compared to Democratic states. The nut bagger religious slant he wants in law. The possibility that tRump will bail in a hundred days...