Protesters outside Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s mansion say he is the wrong choice for Republican Donald Trump’s Vice-Presidential running mate.
Advertisement
“We are going to get rid of ISIS, big league”, Donald Trump tells Lesley Stahl, and Trump’s vice presidential choice, Mike Pence, says it can be done.
Mr Trump called IN governor Mike Pence “a solid, solid person” and contrasted his character with what he deemed “the corruption of Hillary Clinton”, his likely Democratic opponent IN the election this autumn.
Christie joined the chorus of voices denouncing violence against police in the wake of Sunday’s attacks in Baton Rouge but criticized President Obama for taking “sides against police” in past controversies.
For his part, Pence chose not to directly comment on the tenor of Trump’s campaign so far.
“Let me say emphatically, like the overwhelming majority of my constituents, my Christian faith compels me to cherish the state of Israel”, Pence said in an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in 2009, while he was serving in Congress.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his running mate, the governor of IN, are giving the interview before the Republican National Convention starts Monday IN Cleveland. Pence also endorsed Sen.
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. 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.
And that was a war – by the way, that was a war that we shouldn’t have entered.
When Stahl pressed, Trump added: “It’s a long time ago”.
Pence has been a longtime advocate of trade deals such as NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, both aggressively opposed by Trump. “And, and this campaign and Donald Trump’s candidacy has been about the issues the American people care about”.
“What a difference between crooked Hillary and Mike Pence”, he said.
“With picking a VP, it just looks bad in the press”, Pete Wehner, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and a sharp critic of Trump, said of the whole process.
The interview was similar to Trump and Pence’s first campaign appearance together on Saturday, in which Trump barely mentioned his running mate.
Advertisement
Trump then gave Pence permission to answer yes. Well, not if the man doing the introduction is Donald Trump.
