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Variety reports: Eva Longoria appears in a video from the Democratic National Committee that posted on Friday in which she takes issue with Mike Pence’s “Mexican thing” comment from the vice presidential debate. “Governor Pence — we are not a thing,” she says in the video. “We are proud American citizens. We are mothers and fathers working for a better …

Flippity floppity. The Hill reports: Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence says the GOP presidential nominee no longer wants to impose a total ban on Muslims entering the United States. “It’s not Donald Trump’s position now,” Pence said in an interview on CNN’s “New Day.” Trump called for a “shutdown” on Muslims entering the U.S. in December, following the deadly …

Entertainment Weekly recaps: It took a little while, but Tuesday’s vice presidential debate eventually created an internet meme: “That Mexican thing.” The words were uttered by Republican candidate Mike Pence after his opponent, Democratic candidate Tim Kaine, brought up GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s infamous comment about Mexican immigrants for a fourth time during the debate. The comment was quickly …

The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton’s campaign is going after Mike Pence’s performance at the vice presidential debate in a new video, contrasting clips of controversial Donald Trump’s statements with the Republican VP nominee’s denials that Trump said them. The video shows Democratic VP nominee Tim Kaine at Tuesday’s debate pointing to comments made by Pence or Trump — and Pence …

During MSNBC’s post-debate analysis, Rachel Maddow lamented that Tim Kaine failed to confront Mike Pence on his history of supporting virulently anti-LGBT policies, including his demand that “gay cure” funding be attached to an HIV/AIDS bill. As you surely recall, Pence opposed the repeal of DADT, opposed same-sex marriage, and signed a bill that would have permitted Indiana businesses to …

At the same time that Mike Pence was claiming that the Clinton campaign is nothing but “an avalanche of insults,” Donald Trump was retweeting the above messages, one of which tagged the account of a white supremacist. The Washington Post reports: Before the vice-presidential debate began, we wrote it was a sure bet that one of the headlines from this …

Tim Kaine and Mike Pence square off tonight in the only vice presidential debate. The candidates are due to take the stage at 9PM Eastern and embedded below is the pre-debate coverage from CNN. Join in and watch along with us after you enjoy your Taco Tuesday dinner. (PS: It’s also National Taco Day!)

The Republican Party has egg on their faces, again, after publishing their analysis of the debate, which of course was won by Mike Pence. Yes, they’re talking about the debate that doesn’t begin for 90 minutes. Below are more screencaps of their psychic look into the near future.

Via Mediaite: Mike Pence insisted today that Donald Trump won’t be bringing Gennifer Flowers to the debate tomorrow and said he was just trying to make a point. He told Chris Wallace, “Gennifer Flowers will not be attending the debate tomorrow night. Donald Trump was using the tweet yesterday really to mock an effort by Hillary Clinton and her campaign …

Politico reports: In Mike Pence’s prep sessions for the vice-presidential debate, the role of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is being played by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a top GOP source told POLITICO on Saturday. The first mock debate has already been held. Walker, who ended his GOP primary campaign in September, was chosen because he has been in presidential debates …

BOOM. Via Mediaite: CNN’s Jake Tapper shut down Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson when she attempted to argue that “Islamophobia” was a word liberals hurled at people who did not want to live next to ISIS. Tapper asked Pierson if the Trump campaign was at all concerned by the glut of support continuing to pour in from former KKK leader …

Buzzfeed reports: Louisiana Senate candidate and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke says he’s pleased that vice presidential nominee Mike Pence declined to call him “deplorable” in an interview on Monday. “It’s good to see an individual like Pence and others start to reject this absolute controlled media,” Duke told BuzzFeed News. “The truth is that the Republican Party …

Via Mediaite: Mike Pence declined an opportunity to call David Duke “deplorable” today because he doesn’t like name-calling. When Blitzer brought up Duke in the context of Hillary Clinton‘s “basket of deplorables” remark, Pence said that he doesn’t understand why people keep bringing Duke up when Trump has already denounced him. Blitzer asked him if he would call Duke “deplorable.” …

CNN reports: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday defended his running mate’s statement that Vladimir Putin is a stronger leader than President Barack Obama, calling it “inarguable.” In a sit-down with CNN’s Dana Bash at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the GOP vice presidential nominee said Donald Trump was speaking “boldly” as did the 40th president of the United States. …

And that’s supposed to be a good thing? Via Politico: Mike Pence declared Thursday that Donald Trump is the political second coming of Ronald Reagan, saying Trump will reinvigorate the Republican Party in the same way Reagan did in the 1980s. “The American people picked a bold truth teller in 1980, and I know they’re going to elect a bold …

First he breaks with Trump on tax returns and now this. The Hill reports: Donald Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, on Wednesday said he accepts that President Obama was born in the U.S., something the GOP presidential nominee himself has shied away from discussing. “I believe Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. I accept his birthplace,” the Indiana governor told …

Politico reports: Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said he will release his full tax returns next week and maintains Donald Trump will release his tax returns — following the completion of the GOP nominee’s IRS audit. “Donald Trump and I are both going to release our tax returns,” Pence said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet The Press” host …

The Chicago Tribune reports: The attorney for a woman charged with child abuse for allegedly beating her son with a coat hanger says Indiana’s religious objections law gives her the right to discipline her children according to her evangelical Christian beliefs. Kihn Par Thaing, 30, of Indianapolis was arrested in February on felony abuse and neglect charges after a teacher …

CNN reports: Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence insisted Sunday that Donald Trump has been “absolutely consistent” on how he’d treat undocumented immigrants as president and his recent comments on the topic have been that of “a CEO at work.” But he wouldn’t directly address whether Trump would stick with his calls during the GOP primary campaign for a “deportation …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign. Mrs. Clinton is the second most unpopular presidential nominee in history—after Mr. Trump. But rather than reassure voters and try to repair his image, the New Yorker has spent the last three weeks giving his critics more ammunition. Even with …