Donald Trump’s choice of Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate has irked some Republican activists who see the IN governor’s years of opposition to gay rights initiatives as a setback to efforts to broaden the party’s appeal.
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In fact, he spent about as much time lambasting Ms Clinton as praising Gov. Pence, declaring she had led US President Barack Obama “down a disgusting path” overseas.
Like some other evangelicals, Suarez said he’s also concerned about Trump’s commitment to opposing abortion, given his different stances on the issue over the years. “He’s a solid, solid person”.
The convention’s rules committee, dominated by Trump backers and top national and state GOP officials, used a voice vote late Thursday to reject Unruh’s proposal.
Pence, standing alone in front of ten American flags, hewed closely to the populist themes that Trump has voiced on the campaign trail, describing himself as “really just a small-town boy”.
Donald Trump introduced his vice presidential choice to America yesterday (Saturday), in a speech that focused nearly entirely on himself and barely mentioned the man he was supposed to inaugurate.
“It’s over, folks. We need to get behind our candidate”, Iowa delegate Steve Scheffler said to Trump foes during the convention Rules Committee meeting. “We’re exhausted of having politicians in both parties in Washington, DC, telling us we’ll get to those problems tomorrow”.
The joint appearance was meant to catapult the party toward a successful and unified Republican National Convention, which kicks off in Cleveland on Monday. Trump conceded that one of the reasons he’d selected Pence was to promote unity within the Republican Party, left deeply fractured by Trump’s ascent.
“It was a pick that clearly shows he is pivoting to the general election”, said GOP Chairman Reince Priebus, who was in the midst of an interview with The Associated Press when Trump announced his decision Friday morning.
“It’s going to be rather _ I don’t think boring is the right word”.
I’ll be joining 50,000 delegates, guests and other journalists for the spectacle that begins Monday as the GOP gets set to formally nominate Donald Trump for president. The two did not walk out together, appearing at each other’s side only after Trump delivered a rambling 28-minute address that included a plug for his new hotel in Washington.
Brandishing his running mate’s job-creating credentials, Trump – who pushed back against reports of indecision by deeming the governor “my first choice” – ticked through a list of statistics he said showed how Pence had pulled IN out of economic recession: an unemployment rate that fell to less than 5 percent on his watch, an uptick IN the labor force and a decrease IN IN residents on unemployment insurance.
Brandishing his running mate’s job-creating credentials, Trump ticked through a list of statistics he said showed how Gov. Pence had pulled IN out of economic recessions: an unemployment rate that fell to less than 5 per cent on his watch, an uptick IN the labour force and a decrease IN IN residents on unemployment insurance.
“I think that voters knew that he had to be very dynamic to get where he is up against career politicians, up against an excellent slate of experienced politicians”, Graham said of Trump.
It’s a troubling sign for Trump’s candidacy in a state with 18 electoral votes that is historically crucial for Republican nominees.
The Trump campaign has not yet released a full list of convention speakers, or say who will speak when, but plenty of Republicans you might otherwise expect are skipping the show – including the GOP’s two living ex-presidents and its last three presidential nominees. High-end donors included investor and early Trump endorser Carl Icahn and his wife, venture capitalist Stephen Feinberg and Texas investor Darwin Deason, who earlier had been a big contributor to a superPAC backing Ted Cruz. “And they got crushed immediately, because people want what we’re saying to happen”. His complaint stems from Pence’s decision to backtrack, under intense business pressure, from an IN “religious liberty” bill that would have made it easier to discriminate against gay and lesbian people. But his hard line ideology is sometimes at odds with Trump.
Clinton’s team was already painting Pence’s conservative social viewpoints as out of step with the mainstream.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, introduces Gov. Mike Pence.
Still, the billionaire called Pence Thursday afternoon to offer him the job and ask him to fly to NY for a Friday morning news conference.
Trump spent weeks weighing vice-presidential contenders, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and only zeroed in on Pence in recent days. For Pence, a different decision loomed: to continue his re-election bid in IN or bow out of the race to join Trump if invited. He also promised to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an ambitious trade pact with Asian nations, which he told the audience “will do to you worse to you than NAFTA’s done”, referring to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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“I still have concerns about some of the things he said, like his call to ban Muslims, which I think is an attack on our religious freedoms”, said Suarez, who is executive vice president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
