For the first time in this election, the Republican ticket was represented by a calmer face. On Tuesday, October 4th the two vice presidential nominees took the stage at Longwood University in Virginia to debate why on their plans would be the best for the country.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been all we see on television screens for the past year, but last night viewers saw who is going to be the right-hand man to the future president of the United States. It was a big night for Republican vice president nominee Mike Pence, his goal to show a better tempered and calmer side to the republican side of the ticket. Although he did accomplish showing a much better temperament than Trump, he seemed to abandon his running mate and did not defend him for the majority of the debate, “Tim Kaine was running for vice-president 2016, and Mike Pence was running for president 2020,” Chuck Todd, host of Meet the Press, said.

Democratic Candidate, Kaine’s night was filled with attacks on Trump, defending his running mate, and more prominently interrupting Pence. Although viewers and Elaine Quijano (the moderator) had a hard time understanding what either candidate was saying, Kaine did land multiple punches against his opponent. Kaine accused Trump of “shooting himself in the foot” by claiming to be more knowledgeable than the generals about fighting ISIS, and supporting a “personal Mount Rushmore” of dictators and believing “the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons,” along with many other outlandish statements, all things that Trump has said.

Pence deflected, saying Kaine’s attack had “a lot of creative lines in it.”

Kaine shot back: “See if you can defend any of it.”

To Kaine’s point, Pence did not engage in any discussion of defending Trump’s statements. His responses were either chuckles, scoffs, or lies; claiming that Trump didn’t say the things that he did. forty-eight percent of voters who watched the debate believe Pence did the better job while forty-two percent think Kaine did, a senior Trump campaign aide told CNN’s John King: “The media is saying Pence won, but didn’t really defend Trump. That isn’t sitting well with the boss.”

Although Pence was declared the winner on CNN to be the winner, the fallout will tell if he moved any votes.