VP candidates Mike Pence, Tim Kaine to take turn in debate spotlight
Presidential Elections,Vice Presidential Debate,Mike Pence,Tim Kaine,Elections
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Tim Kaine describes himself as "boring." Mike Pence calls himself a “B-list Republican celebrity.”
No one expects Tuesday's debate between the two vice presidential nominees — Kaine, a Democratic senator from Virginia, and Pence, the Republican governor of Indiana — to draw the record-breaking 84 million people who watched the first faceoff between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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