Watch Tuesday's VP debate in 4 minutes, or 2 minutes

Mike Pence and Tim Kaine after their debate

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last updated 5 October 2016

If you watched Tuesday's vice presidential debate between Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine, you know there was a lot of unintelligible cross-talk and silly argument about which campaign was more "insult-driven." But there were also some interesting, calm, and substantive debates about abortion rights, immigration, and other weighty subjects, as well as a few uneven quips and zingers. The New York Times helpfully condensed the debate down to 4:38 minutes:

That's pretty substantive for under 5 minutes, but if its still too long, you can watch most of the zingers with almost none of the interruptions in Politico's 2:20 recap below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.