Those words from Indiana Gov. Mike Pence marked the official debut of the Trump-Pence presidential ticket.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence appeared in public together for the first time since Trump announced Pence as his running mate.
Mike Pence (R) not only had to be rescued from 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl by Donald Trump during their interview on Sunday, but at one point Trump was seen steering Pence toward an answer regarding Sen.
“Hillary Clinton invented ISIS with her stupid policies”, Trump tells Lesley Stahl. A few hundred people greeted him at a suburban Indianapolis airport hangar bereft of any “Trump-Pence” signs. “I just feel confident I can vote for Trump now because of Pence”.
Priebus described Trump and Pence as being “somewhere in the middle of each other” and says Trump plans an engagement tour soon to attract Latino voters.
With Trump’s selection done, the attention now shifts to Hillary Clinton.
“I do strongly disagree with the call that would ban Muslims from this country”, Pence said, according to the Journal Gazette. “But it was more of an endorsement for me, if you remember”. “We’re exhausted of having politicians in both parties in Washington, D.C., telling us we’ll get to those problems tomorrow”.
Mr Trump will be formally made the Republican presidential candidate at the party’s national convention in Cleveland next week.
“They got crushed”, Trump said.
Rich Lowry says that Trump seemed to be “doing everything he could to signal his lack of enthusiasm about his own pick-he rambled on during the introduction, only occasionally coming back to Pence and his record in IN”. “Once I said that, it was over”.
But Pence got his moment – actually close to 12 minutes – after his 27-minute wait.
Trump said there were a lot of people who came to him, wanting badly to be his running mate, but he was the pursuer of Pence.
Pence’s speech was good – not the “power-packed” “barn burner” that Chris Matthews perceived – but quite good.
“I don’t care”, Trump responded.
Trump has made renegotiating trade deals a central theme of his campaign, while Pence has spoken in favour of trade agreements.
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And while Trump said Pence helps him with evangelical Christians, he said he didn’t need that help because “I won with the evangelicals” in the primary.
