--- title: Vice Presidential Debate: Full Transcript of Kaine and Pence description: Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence debated Tuesday for the first and only time of the 2016 campaign. canonical: https://time.com/4517096/vice-presidential-debate-kaine-pence-transcript/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-05T04:47:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:58:53.532Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read a Transcript of the Vice Presidential Debate og:description: This was the first and only time the two candidates will debate og:url: https://time.com/4517096/vice-presidential-debate-kaine-pence-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2e694da2992bbb8/6988a8b9428a9ec3bacd480c/161005_em_vpdebateanalysis.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 161005_EM_VPDebateAnalysis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read a Transcript of the Vice Presidential Debate twitter:description: This was the first and only time the two candidates will debate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2e694da2992bbb8/6988a8b9428a9ec3bacd480c/161005_em_vpdebateanalysis.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read a Transcript of the Vice Presidential Debate by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Oct 5, 2016 4:47 AM UTC  Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine (L) and Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence (R) speak during the U.S. vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., Tuesday night. Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine (L) and Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence (R) speak during the U.S. vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., Tuesday night.Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Oct 5, 2016 4:47 AM UTC Vice Presidential candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence debated Tuesday night for the first and only time of the 2016 campaign. The moderator was CBS News’ Elaine Quijano, and the debate took place at Longwood University in Farmville, Va. Read the transcript of the debate below. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4517096/vice-presidential-debate-kaine-pence-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4517096/vice-presidential-debate-kaine-pence-transcript/"},"headline":"Read a Transcript of the Vice Presidential Debate","datePublished":"2016-10-05T04:47:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:58:53.532Z","description":"Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence debated Tuesday for the first and only time of the 2016 campaign.","url":"https://time.com/4517096/vice-presidential-debate-kaine-pence-transcript/","keywords":["Debates","2016 Election topic","Mike Pence","transcripts","Tim Kaine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2e694da2992bbb8/6988a8b9428a9ec3bacd480c/161005_em_vpdebateanalysis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2e694da2992bbb8/6988a8b9428a9ec3bacd480c/161005_em_vpdebateanalysis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"161005_EM_VPDebateAnalysis","caption":"Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine (L) and Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence (R) speak during the US vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia on October 4, 2016.","creditText":"Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4517096/vice-presidential-debate-kaine-pence-transcript/","name":"Read a Transcript of the Vice Presidential Debate"}}]}] ```