Corey Stewart's modus operandi in this debate seems to be to grandstand for the base and attack Kaine as an extremist. Tim Kaine's modus operandi is to try to present himself as a reasonable middle ground politician who is being unfairly attacked in an appalling, vicious manner.
Sadly I'll give it a slight edge to Kaine based on the performance so far because Stewart's base is going to vote for Stewart regardless. Kaine was also speaking to his base, and probably looks more appealing to middle of the road voters. Stewart can still successfully argue that Kaine is extreme, but so far it's convincing enough.
Kaine might not win as many middle of the road voters as I might think though, merely because of his awful body language.
