Her campaign says the Democratic presidential candidate will make her announcement in a video shown on Saturday to liberal activists meeting at the annual Netroots Nation conference in St. Louis.
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Overturning the decision was a key plank in the campaign of primary rival Bernie Sanders, who refused corporate donations.
Unlike Sanders, Clinton supports Super PACs working on her behalf, saying Democrats can not unilaterally disarm.
Asserting that the situation in the Middle East is “out of control” and more unstable than ever, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump today said America needs “new leadership” and “new thinking” which his presidency can provide.
In choosing Pence, Trump appeared to be looking past their numerous policy differences.
All this before going back to Pence to compliment him on balancing Indiana’s budget while cutting taxes. He did return for a brief photo-op at the end.
Back home, Pence thanked individual members of his family during a short address and asked for prayers. Trump is not scheduled to join him.
On Thursday, Trump had convened a midnight campaign conference call about his pick, even after he’d had Pence fly to NY to accept his offer.
Pence says at an announcement event on Saturday in NY that Trump “is a great man and he will make a great president of the United States of America”. Pence gave a nod to that by saying “strong Republican leadership can bring about real change”.
Trump said Pence will help him fix the “rigged system” in Washington, D.C.
The presumptive Republican nominee spoke for almost a half-hour Saturday as he introduced his pick for vice president, calling Pence onto the stage at the end. “You just have to look, every single thing they touched has turned to horrible, horrible, death-defying problems”, he said. Because, you see, Pence endorsing Cruz was really Pence endorsing Trump.
He brags that they’ve been “crushed”.
Lanhee Chen, who advised Romney in 2012, said it was clear that in the Trump-Pence partnership, there would only be one boss. He is a solid, solid person, .
For how Trump-y Trump’s introduction was, Pence is a safe pickA Pence pick is Trump deciding – or perhaps admitting – that it’s more important to be a Republican than to be, well, himself.
The billionaire businessman strode first onto the stage that featured a backdrop of 10 American flags. The event did not feature any new “Trump-Pence” signs, instead displaying the standard “Trump” podium sign. He said he would champion “law and order” in the wake of this week’s terror attack in France.
“We are the law and order candidates”, Trump declared, adding that they were the “law and order party”.
Donald Trump has finally hired someone he can’t fire. “Always divisive. Not so decisive”.
The widely-mocked Trump-Pence 2016 logo was nowhere to be found on Donald Trump’s campaign website on Saturday morning.
Trump and Pence are scheduled to make their first joint appearance Saturday morning in NY. He lauded Pence’s personal character and conservative credentials and pointed to his record as governor of Indiana. “So Trump, again via Twitter, announced Pence as his pick at 11 a.m”. “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order”. He was picked after Trump’s days-long and unusually public deliberation process. The two appeared together on stage only briefly – each standing out of view while the other one spoke.
Trump had mentioned Reagan as well – to note that he had won more votes than even Reagan during the GOP primaries.
The delegates from Wyoming, the District of Columbia and Washington state might want to bring binoculars.
There were no newly printed banners or logos at the hotel ballroom event, which was set in a state that Trump has little chance of winning in November.
Oh well. Exit quotation from pollster Patrick Murray: “I think if Trump wins, Trump will find something for him”.
Donald Trump formally introduced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate Saturday with a speech in New York City that was a testament to Trump’s greatest strength: talking about himself.
Trump and Pence made their debut just two days before the beginning of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where delegates from around the country will convene to officially nominate the pair as their party’s ticket for the November 8 election.
Clinton’s team was already painting Pence’s conservative social viewpoints as out of step with the mainstream.
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Pence, whose calm demeanor forms a marked counterpoint to the fiery Trump, was chosen in part to ease concerns in some GOP corners about the billionaire’s impulsive style and lack of political experience.
