Donald Trump had an announcement before the sole debate between his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, and Hillary Clinton's, Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.):
He spent a good part of the debate retweeting other people who said on Twitter that Pence was winning the debate, like "John Nelson" of Davenport, Iowa:
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Trump also agreed with the Pence boosters:
He plus-oned Pence on policy issues like the greatness of police and the fecklessness of American foreign policy under Clinton, then took a pot shot at the crucial swing state of Virginia:
Tried to flip the narrative about his business interests in Russia:
And ended with an attaboy for his running mate:
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, retweeted people who found Pence to be an anti-woman candidate who disloyally would not defend his running mate, made that case herself, and thanked Kaine for a certain line in the discussion about abortion rights:
Clinton also got in an opinion on Pence's insistence that it was Clinton who was running an "insult-driven campaign," and somehow this all got back to that Batman tweet.
So it looks like maybe Batman won the debate.
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