Kaine’s plan: Turn Pence into Trump
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.
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