The Indianapolis Star reported that Trump is planning to pick Pence and that the Indiana governor is prepared to forgo his plans to run for a second term.
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Bosma was regarded as a leading possible candidate for the position, but he released a statement Friday saying he wouldn’t seek the nomination.
Holcomb, who has never been elected to office, touted his eight years as an aide and campaign manager to former Gov. Mitch Daniels and four months as lieutenant governor. No other withdrawal forms were submitted. “And I think Mike Pence is going to appeal to the Republican base and beyond”.
Trump had planned to hold his first event with his yet-to-be-named running mate Friday morning in NY. Conservatives had urged him to seek the White House, but missteps previous year related to an IN law seen as anti-gay hurt his national profile. Another top contender for the GOP ticket was former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who stirred up fresh controversy Thursday night by saying that all Muslims in the USA should be tested and then deported if they believe in sharia law.
The expected GOP nominee spent additional time with the IN governor after a mechanical issue with his plane grounded him IN the state Wednesday.
Prominent Republicans have started taking steps to possibly replace Mike Pence as their party’s candidate for governor.
Trump, 70, a NY businessman, is to be formally nominated as the party’s candidate for the November 8 presidential election at the Republican National Convention next week in Cleveland. He is also viewed as someone who could help Trump navigate Congress. As in many states, candidates are legally barred from appearing twice on the same ballot for different offices.
Priebus was in an interview with The Associated Press when Trump tweeted the news about Pence.
IN law bars a candidate from seeking state and federal offices at the same time, so a representative for Pence filed paperwork to remove his name from November’s ballot shortly after Trump’s tweet.
Trump had originally planned to make his announcement on Friday, but called off the formal event in the wake of the deadly truck attack in France.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump plans to make an announcement on his vice presidential pick before he heads to the party’s national convention in Cleveland next week, his campaign manager said on Friday.
IN law bars a candidate from seeking state and federal offices at the same time.
But the selection of Pence was welcomed by Republican establishment leaders who have winced over and over at Trump’s raw brand of racial politics and his rejection of party orthodoxy on free trade.
It isn’t just the gubernatorial race that’s been thrown into uncertainty – so are races for Brooks’ and Rokita’s House seats and the lieutenant governor’s spot. But GOP officials could later restore any of them to those ballot vacancies.
“Great pick. @mike_pence is rock solid”, tweeted former 2016 presidential candidate Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida.
Donald Trump made his vice presidential pick public in the same way he’s done a lot of his campaigning: with a tweet.
IN law bars a candidate from seeking two state offices at once.
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The governor was on a deadline of his own: He filed papers ahead of a noon deadline withdrawing from his bid for re-election in Indiana.
