VIDEO-Krauthammer Names Winner, Loser In Vice Presidential Debate

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Commentator Charles Krauthammer was clear that if there was a victory at Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, it belonged to GOP nominee Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

But the loser was not, in his estimation, Democratic candidate Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia. Instead, he said, it was CBS anchor and debate moderator Elaine Quijano.

“Unfortunately, the big loser was the moderator. I don’t envy her position, but she lost control of the debate very early,” he said. “The candidates were talking over each other.”

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Then when it was time to let them at it, Krauthammer said, Quijano pulled in the reins.

“Towards the end you were getting really good exchanges where they were going at each other, quite revealing, and she would say, ‘We have to stop and go on to another subject,’ to which I would say, ‘Why?'” he said.

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Although Krauthammer gave the decision to Pence, he said the debate “didn’t move the needle.”

He praised Pence’s strategy for ignoring Kaine’s continual references to various comments and actions of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump

“Pence had made a decision not to go down that rabbit hole on any of these or otherwise he would never have talked about anything else,” Krauthammer said.

Krauthammer said Pence’s style helped make him the debate’s winner.

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“I thought he won on tone — kind of Reagan saying to Carter, ‘There you go again.'”

He also said that Pence’s handling of criticisms of Trump said, in effect “perhaps my guy has made some misstatements but your candidate and her people have been in charge for eight years and in a larger sense for 30 years and look at the state of the world.”

Krauthammer also said that having a cool head as the vice president helps bring confidence on the ticket when the top of the ticket is “hot.”

“I think it helps the ticket to whatever extent the vice president can,” he said.

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