If you didn’t watch the VP debate last night, honestly you didn’t miss that much. It was almost as if Tim Kaine, instead of trying to win the debate on style points, instead orchestrated the perfect campaign ad.

He did. It is spectacular. Tim Kaine spent all night setting up the perfect joke. Here is the punchline.

At the #VPDebate, Mike Pence tried really, really hard to deny pretty much everything Donald Trump has said and done. Let's replay the tape: pic.twitter.com/5XNKyFX6az

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 5, 2016

I really don’t know how much influence political ads have on the election, ultimately, but I can’t imagine that anyone who didn’t see the debate and saw only that ad would think that Mike Pence “won.”

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