As media reports and online polls were trying to discover who won the only US vice-presidential debate for the 2016 US election, GOP nominee Donald Trump declared himself the victor, further taking credit for his veep’s performance.
Indiana Governor Mike Pence and Virginia Senator Time Kaine faced off in the debate on Tuesday in the run-up to the November 8 presidential election.
In the 90-minute debate aired live and watched by roughly 37 million people, Kaine, the running mate of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and Pence, Trump’s VP pick, tried to make the case against the opposite campaign.
Trump, who himself put up a poor performance in the first on-on-one debate against Clinton earlier, came out in support of Pence Wednesday, suggesting taht the governor had won thanks to him.
“Mike Pence did an incredible job and I’m getting a lot of credit because that’s really my first so-called choice,” the GOP candidate said at a rally in Henderson, Nevada, on Wednesday.
“That was my first hire, as we would say in Las Vegas, and I’ll tell you he was a good one,” Trump asserted. “He was phenomenal. He was cool. He was smart. Just take a look at him. He was meant to be doing what he was doing, and we are very, very proud of Governor Mike Pence.”
The real estate mogul and New York billionaire went even further, saying, “I’d argue that Mike had the single most decisive victory in the history of vice presidential debates… And last night America also got to look firsthand at my judgment.”
Trump and Clinton, former secretary of state and first lady, will partake in the next debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday (October 9).
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