The Vice Presidential Debate

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday night was the one and only debate between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence. Recap and analysis with host/campaign reporter Sam Sanders, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and editor/correspondent Ron Elving. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

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0:16.8	Alright, here's the show.
0:21.2	Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast here with a recap of Tuesday night's Vice Presidential debate between Tim Cain and Mike Pence.
0:28.5	I'm Sam Sanders, Campaign reporter.
0:30.1	I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.
0:31.7	I'm Ron Elving, Editor-Course Pond.
0:33.8	Okay, it is about 11.32 as we taped this. I've had too much espresso tonight, so I'm ready to go.
0:40.7	How are we feeling?
0:41.7	Maybe a little bit Tim Cain, Caffinade.
0:44.2	Yeah, I'm kind of jumpy right now.
0:46.5	Yeah, like Tim Cain was.
0:48.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:50.4	So what are our big takeaways?
0:52.1	You know, I think we have to think about it in two different categories, right?
0:55.0	Is the one is style and one is substance. Yeah, and stylistically, Tim Cain clearly ate his
1:00.3	weedies this morning. Sure did.
1:01.6	He came out, you know, a lot of the talk going into this was how Tim Cain and Mike Pence are known as being
1:06.0	nice guys, that they're a little bit boring, that they're not as antagonistic, and Tim Cain did his
1:12.7	best to disprove that tonight.
1:14.9	He was in the beginning very interrupting Mike Pence. He was very antagonistic.
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