5 memorable moments from the vice presidential debate

FARMVILLE, Va. — Republican Mike Pence and Democratic rival Tim Kaine took center stage Tuesday night at the vice presidential debate in Farmville, Virgattainia.

There were plenty of memorable moments during the 90-minute showdown as Pence, the governor of Indiana, and Kaine, a U.S. senator from Virginia, made the case for their running mates. Check them out below:

1. Pence thanks wrong venue. At the beginning of the debate, Pence thanked "Norwood University for their wonderful hospitality." So, what's the problem? There is no Norwood University. The candidates were at Virginia's Longwood University.

The fake school quickly became a trending topic on Twitter.

2. Pence calls out Kaine for canned attack. Kaine made a reference to Donald Trump's reality TV show, "The Apprentice," while laying out his ticket's plans for the economy, asking, "Do you want a 'you're hired' president in Hillary Clinton, or do you want a 'you're fired' president in Donald Trump?"

"I appreciated the 'you're hired,' 'you're fired' thing, senator," a bemused Pence responded. "You used that a lot, and I think your running mate used a lot of pre-done lines."

3. Kaine accuses Trump of having a "personal Mount Rushmore" of dictators. While discussing Trump's "dangerous ideas," Kaine said the GOP nominee "trash talks the military," "wants to tear up alliances" and "loves dictators."

"He's got kind of a personal Mount Rushmore: Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Moammar Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein," Kaine quipped.

After Kaine wrapped up by saying Trump "believes the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons," Pence shot back with his own zinger.

"Did you work on that one a long time?" Pence asked. "Because that had a lot of really creative lines in it."

4. The candidates try to drown each other out. Tuesday's debate was filled with frequent interruptions from the get-go, and the moderator, CBS News' Elaine Quijano, was not amused.

"Gentlemen, the people at home cannot understand either one of you when you speak over each other," she said as Kaine and Pence went back-and-forth over why Trump hasn't released his tax returns.

Later, a frustrated Quijano, who was attempting to ask a question about Syria, broke in again as the candidates sparred over Clinton's emails.

"Gentlemen, please!" she interjected.

5. Candidates argue over whose campaign is more "insult-driven." Addressing what he called a "fundamental respect issue," Kaine slammed some of Trump's controversial remarks and the tone of his campaign.

"I just want to talk about the tone set from the top. Donald Trump during this campaign has called Mexicans rapists and criminals," Kaine said. "He's called women slobs, pigs, dogs, disgusting. I don't like saying that in front of my wife and my mother. He attacked an Indiana-born federal judge and said he was unqualified to hear a federal lawsuit because his parents were Mexican. He went after John McCain, a POW, and said he wasn't a hero because he'd been captured. He said African-Americans are living in hell, and he perpetrated this outrageous and bigoted lie that president (Barack) Obama is not a U.S. citizen."

He concluded, "I cannot believe that Gov. Pence will defend the insult-driven campaign that Donald Trump has run."

Pence responded, "To be honest with you, if Donald Trump had said all of the things that you've said he said in the way you said he said them, he still wouldn't have a fraction of the insults that Hillary Clinton leveled when she said that half of our supporters were a basket of deplorables. She said they were irredeemable; they were not American.

"I mean, it's extraordinary," he continued. "And then she labeled one after another 'ism' on millions of Americans who believe that we can have a stronger America at home and abroad, who believe we can get this economy moving again, who believe that we can end illegal immigration once and for all."

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