The Republican presidential candidate’s plane was set to land Friday morning at a private facility at the Baron Rouge airport. He plays directly to them on the stump.
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And Pence hinted at the prospect of ads soon airing in the Boston/Manchester market, saying “this is just the very beginning”.
“People that have accomplished great things in their own right in a season of service to be willing to answer the call of this country”, Pence said.
Still, there are times where the two are on different pages.
“We have a choice to make, men and women in New Hampshire”, he said. Pence ducked the issue until his Democratic vice presidential rival Sen. “While the media was focusing on word choices by my running mate”, Pence said, “we that learned the Federal Bureau of Investigation discussed opening a public corruption case against the Clinton Foundation, but the Obama Justice Department shut it down”. Now Pence has changed tack, suggesting in an interview with WABC in NY that his own taxes could soon be released and adding they would be a “a quick read”.
Rubio also told reporters he would not be making personal appearances with Trump. He then took four questions from an audience of a couple hundred people that was made up mostly of Trump supporters. He was elected to Indiana’s state house in 2000 and was relatively unknown nationally, despite being a career politician. “I mean, the media is so busy parsing every word that Donald Trump said in the last 30 minutes, they don’t have time to cover what the Clintons have been up to for the last 30 years”.
Pence’s selection to the ticket was seen as an opportunity to shore up conservative support and provide an empathetic voice through swing states in the Midwestern and Rust Belt states.
In part, Mr Pence was brought on to the ticket to reassure traditional Republicans and conservative voters, nearly as an antidote to the freewheeling Mr Trump.
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And at almost each of his more than 30 campaign rallies over the last month, Pence consistently delivers one of his most crowd-arousing stump speech lines: “When [Trump] does his talking, he doesn’t go tiptoeing around those thousands of rules of political correctness”.
