“You know, in NASCAR, they say rubbing is racing”, Pence said at the time.
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“First, press credentials for the Washington Post were revoked by Donald Trump”, Post executive editor Martin Baron told the paper. Days later, he scrapped the effort.
An official with Gov. Pence’s campaign blamed it on overzealous volunteers.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has banned almost a dozen news organizations whose coverage displease him, the Post reported, but reporters have generally been allowed to cover his events by going through general admission lines. “They said, all the people we compete with are already manufacturing in Mexico, and we’re just going to go there”.
The Post reports that after DelReal couldn’t get into the venue, he attempted to get in via public line but was reportedly stopped by private security and denied entry because he had a laptop and cellphone. When he protested, a private security guard summoned the police and DelReal was patted down by two sheriff’s deputies.
Vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said during a Friday radio discussion with Hugh Hewitt that he’s holding discussions to do away with Donald Trump’s campaign blacklist on news outlets.
Pence made the comments during a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, in which the in governor criticized President Barack Obama for calling Donald Trump a “homegrown demagogue” during his speech at the Democratic National Convention.
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Pence, who vowed early in his career to not run campaigns fueled by personal attacks, has yet to take hold of Trump-created nicknames for his own use on the campaign trail. But after a cursory investigation, one official, who declined to speak on the record, said that no members of the campaign’s staff were involved.
