National media has not closely scrutinized Pence, so we won’t know yet what they and the Hillary Clinton campaign might turn up on him.
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The Vermont senator tells The Associated Press in an interview that he wants a review of superdelegates and closed primaries, and how the party can up itself up.
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein writes in an email to his congregation that he had agreed to deliver the invocation “out of respect” for Ivanka Trump. But the fact that 85 percent of evangelicals are on board with Trump is good for those of us seeking to create a new center-right party.
Indeed, one reason New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie might not be Trump’s VP pick is that it could cause a revolt on the floor from Republicans who think he is too liberal.
“I’m a conservative”, Pence says. Though Mr. Pence is reportedly more easygoing than Mr. Trump, he has a bit of Mr. Trump’s penchant for the weird, as when he claimed in a magazine commentary that “smoking doesn’t kill”.
Ryan is more likely to find agreement on trade with Pence than Trump.
Priebus says Pence also helps Trump politically by drawing in conservative groups that may have been slow to come to Trump’s side.
Pence is seen as helping Trump boost support among traditional conservatives and especially evangelical Christians wary of Trump, and perhaps even in the Rust Belt – the decaying former industrial area that includes in and neighboring Ohio.
The former congressman is also a proven fundraiser with close ties to billionaire industrialists David and Charles Koch and their network of wealthy donors, many of whom have been dismissive of Mr Trump.
A second Republican said Friday he spoke to Trump on Thursday morning, and the NY real estate mogul said he had chosen Pence and would be calling the governor to make the offer and ask him to fly to NY.
Trump officially announced Friday that Pence would be his running mate, after a week of increasingly frenzied speculation. The announcement had been planned for Friday morning in midtown Manhattan, but Trump delayed his plans after the truck attack in Nice, France, that left more than 80 people dead.
Pence served six terms in the House representing an in district firmly anchored in Rust Belt territory. “We need someone who is steady and secure in his principles, someone who can cut through the noise and make a compelling case for conservatism”. “He will help bring real change to Washington, and so I will do everything I can between now and November to help our ticket and our party win a national majority”.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump picked Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) as his running mate. Her campaign chairman, John Podesta, highlighted Pence’s tea party leanings and accused him of backing “failed economic policies that favor millionaires and corporations over working families”.
Clinton’s campaign also spotlighted Pence’s anti-abortion record and his signing of a law that allowed IN businesses to ignore anti-discrimination rules that conflict with their religious beliefs, a measure widely denounced as anti-gay after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.
The Clinton team notes Pence led the fight to defund Planned Parenthood and restrict abortion rights and has opposed raising the federal minimum wage. He’s up for re-election in IN, but state law requires him to withdraw from that race by noon Friday if he’s joining Trump on the Republican ticket.
Since taking office in 2013, Pence has presided over Indiana’s improving economy and falling unemployment rate, which Republicans credit to the state’s low taxes, limited regulation and pro-business climate.
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. Where Trump makes conservatives suspicious, Pence has credibility. Granted, it’s normal for a presidential nominee to give those assurances, but it’s a “normal” Trump has repeatedly fallen short of (such as in his continued attacks on New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, the chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association).
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Pence’s last known trip to MI was an October 12, 2015, Republican Governors Association event in Detroit, where he toured the site of the new Red Wings stadium alongside Gov. Rick Snyder, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
