Hillary Clinton's running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, said Clinton showed her fitness to be commander in chief in Monday night's presidential debate while her opponent, Donald Trump, "told some whoppers."
"Hillary offered details and Donald didn’t. Hillary answered questions and Donald avoided them. Hillary told the truth and Donald told some whoppers," Kaine said today on "Good Morning America." "He just seemed rattled the longer the debate wore on.
"I think it really showed her off as prepared to be commander in chief and president," Kaine said of the 90-minute debate held at Hofstra University in New York.
Kaine, who campaigned in Florida on Monday, said Trump was not able to provide an answer for why he pushed the "birther" controversy suggesting that President Obama was not a U.S. citizen.
"I think her pushing him I think was effective but in some ways I think the more effective part of it was just watching him struggle with an answer," he said of the debate's focus on race. "This is fundamentally a truthfulness and trust issue.
"For five years, Donald Trump pushed a bigoted lie that President Obama was not a U.S. citizen. When he was asked to explain it by Hillary and by the moderator, Lester Holt, he just didn’t have an explanation," Kaine said. "By bringing up this painful history and saying this president is not a U.S. citizen, Donald Trump was bringing us back to the most painful days in our history and he still has to answer for that."
Kaine said he believes Clinton's best moment in the debate came when she took on Trump for an earlier comment he made about her appearance.
"He tried to change it and say, ‘No, I was talking about her stamina.’ And she said, ‘You go to 120 countries and you sit before a House Committee for 11 hours and then you talk to me about stamina,'" Kaine recalled. "The other thing that was great about it was I was watching it on a channel that had a split screen and in that moment, Hillary was going strong and ready for another four or five hours of the debate and Donald Trump was on the ropes and he was out of gas and that was really, really apparent."
Kaine will debate Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, next week at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
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