it was a debate between vice presidential candidates, but the focus was on their running mates. | getty by politico staff 10/05/16 01:59 am edt vice presidential nominees tim kaine and mike pence were front and center on the debate stage tuesday night, but the focus was on hillary clinton and, especially, donald trump. kaine spent much of the evening trying to keep the conversation about trump and his controversial statements; the democratic vice presidential nominee referenced trump 161 times in the 90-minute debate (either by saying <u+201c>trump<u+201d> directly or using <u+201c>he<u+201d> to refer to the gop presidential nominee). kaine referenced clinton 88 times. story continued below pence, meanwhile, brought up clinton 70 times and trump 72 times. no one vp candidate dominated the speaking time at the debate. pence spoke for 41 minutes and 53 seconds, compared to kaine<u+2019>s 39:09. ruairi arrieta-kenna, madeline conway , brent griffiths and christina animashaun contributed to this report. by bill scher by joshua zeitz by thomas wright by jack shafer
trump chatter dominates vp debate - politico
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