“He operates with the gut, and by all accounts if you were following the gut, he would have gone with Chris Christie, but everybody around him in the campaign apparatus had been making these moves to make it so that Mike Pence would be his running mate”.
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Republican White House candidate Donald Trump on Friday formally announced Mike Pence, the governor of IN, as his choice for vice president, ending weeks of intense speculation and putting a conservative stalwart on the ticket.
“Rather than debate semantics, let’s talk about the policy”, the memo obtained by Bloomberg Politics said before launching into a summary of Trump’s position and criticisms of the position held by presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump lodged multiple attacks at Hispanic U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in June, calling him a “hater of Donald Trump”.
Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said adding Pence to the ticket made the future “a lot scarier”.
“Governor Mike Pence is a strong addition to the ticket”.
“Governor Pence is a proven conservative leader”, Kaufmann wrote.
Trump staffers also held a conference call Friday afternoon to sort through details to present the duo for the first time, trying to pump freshness into what wound up being an anti-climactic unveiling after yesterday’s initial postponement, according to a person familiar with the call. The Republican from Roswell is traveling to the convention in Cleveland with the New Mexico delegation as an alternate in case other delegates drop out unexpectedly. “I’d like to save it, give it the old fashioned way, right?”
On Friday, Martinez issued a statement that praised Pence’s handling of the IN economy and his dedication to helping other GOP candidates for governor. Rod Adair on Friday described Pence as a cautious pick that is unlikely to dramatically improve Trump’s popularity.
Therefore, Trump’s pick of Pence would also help to quell concerns among social conservatives that the NY billionaire developer is too liberal on social issues.
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