Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway appeared on MSNBC a day after the vice presidential debate

Donald Trump's presidential campaign is planning to continue to exploit footage of Bill Clinton on the campaign trail this week calling Obamcare 'the craziest thing in the world.'

Appearing on MSNBC a day after the vice presidential debate, Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, called Clinton's latest statements a 'huge issue.'

'We’ve got now president bill Clinton as our best surrogate. We’re thinking of having him in the spin room with us in St. Louis,' she quipped – a reference to the pivotal second presidential debate set to occur on Sunday.

Bill Clinton's comments – which showed him splitting with popular president Obama on an issue central to his presidency while Hillary Clinton is seeking to succeed him – is likely to live on not only in the next debate, but in campaign TV ads.

Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway declared Mike Pence the winner of Tuesday night's debate – and said Bill Clinton was now the campaign's best surrogate after his explosive Obamacare remarks

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Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, also appearing on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe,' smiled as he struggled to explain the comments

Speaking of Hillary Clinton's view of Obamacare, he said, 'She thinks it’s been a success and we need to continue on it, we need to buid on it.'

Trying to clean up for Bill Clinton, whom he served as chief of staff, Podesta said, 'That’s what he really believes, his colorful language not withstanding.'

Speaking at a rally in Flint, Michigan on Monday as he stumps for his wife, Bill Clinton said, 'So you've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.'

'It's the craziest thing in the world,' the former president said.

Bill Clinton tried to clean up his remarks on Tuesday by saying Obamacare did 'a world of good.'

Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta tried to spin Bill Clinton's remarks, 'his colorful language not withstanding'

Conway acknowledged her own boss' time was better spent talking about policy rather than any weight gain by former Miss Universe Alicia Machado

EXPLAINER IN CHIEF? Bill Clinton put his foot in his mouth Monday when he called Obamacare ''the craziest thing in the world'

HELPING HAND? Conway joked that Donald Trump's campaign would deploy Bill Clinton in the 'spin room' after the next debate as a Trump-supporter following his Obamacare comments

Republican Mike Pence (R) and Democrat Tim Kaine (L) sparred during the only Vice Presidential Debate at Longwood University in Farmville

NO MAS MACHADO: Conway indicated Trump might have erred by going after former Miss Universe Alicia Machado following the first debate. ''If the campaign is about you and not about us, the people, then it’s not really your highest and best uses as a candidate,' she said

Both Podesta and Conway weighed in on Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, where Indiana Governor Mike Pence prevailed in snap polls after Virginia Senator Time Kaine repeatedly challenged and interrupted him.

But Pence turned down numerous opportunities to defend his running mate, even denying Donald Trump had said things he had actually said.

'Governor Pence was smooth,' said Podesta. 'He seemed sort of likeable but he didn't get the job done. The vice president's job is to go in and try to defend the top of the ticket.'

He added: 'Mike Pence looked like more like he was looking at 2020 than 2016. He kind of walked away.'

'He did backflips on Russia. He didn't sound at all like what Donald Trump has been saying out on the campaign trail. He made a whole new policy up on Syria which embraced Hillary Clinton's approach to what's going on in Syria.'

Conway said Tim Kaine appeared 'so boorish interrupting and ignoring a female moderator.'

But asked about her own boss's attacks on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado during the first presidential debate, Conway admitted there were better uses of his time.

'If the campaign is about you and not about us, the people, then it’s not really your highest and best uses as a candidate,' Conway said.

She also cast aside theories that Trump was ticked that Pence didn't defend some of Trump's comments – perhaps with an eye on his own political future.