The dust is settling from last night's Vice Presidential debates and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are looking ahead to their next face-off, on Sunday night. Trump hit the campaign trail in Nevada celebrating his running mate's strong performance, while Clinton stayed in D.C. to prep for her debate. Reporter Grace Rauh has the story.
After Indiana Gov. Mike Pence won praise for his debating chops his running mate, Donald Trump, declared victory too.
"Mike Pence did an incredible job and I'm getting a lot of credit because that's really my first so-called choice," Trump said. "That was my first hire."
Pence kept his cool under intense fire from Hillary Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine. However, he rarely leapt to Trump's defense, instead deflecting many of the questions about Trump's record and statements that came his way.
That lead to speculation that Trump was unhappy with Pence, and reports that he was upset his No. 2 won higher debate marks than he did.
Asked on MSNBC if there was any truth to the rumor Trump felt Pence had performed so well against Kaine that he outshined the Donald himself, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said:
"Absolutely not. That's just not true. His last tweet was how excited he was, how proud of him he was. They talked last night. "
"We are very, very proud of Mike Pence," Trump said.
Pence did face criticism for essentially denying that he and Trump have heaped praise on Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a campaign stop in Nevada, Trump tried to claim that he has no feelings one way or the other about the Russian strongman.
"I don't love, I don't hate," Trump said. "We'll see how it works."
Clinton and Trump will face each other on Sunday at a town hall-style debate -- a format Clinton is accustomed to.
"She likes it," said Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. "She likes answering questions from individual citizens. She listens hard and relates to people."
Trump seems most at ease in front of large crowds.
Meanwhile, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is taking a leave of absence from his law firm because of his involvement in Trump's campaign. The New York Observer says the firm, Greenberg Traurig, pressed him to do it.