But Stahl asked if he was giving Pence a “pass” on that vote, but not giving a pass to Hillary Clinton.
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“We just couldn’t be more honored as a family and looking very much forward to tomorrow’s announcement”, said Pence, who was joined by his wife, Karen, and his oldest daughter, Charlotte.
Donald Trump’s selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate has given Wisconsin Republicans a reason to get excited about the top of their ticket.
“Even though the Trump rallies are big productions. for Mike Pence, this is his style: a little more understated, a little more traditional, a little more what you’d expect from a conservative”, said Dana Carroll of suburban Indianapolis.
One of Donald Trump’s favorite cudgels against former Secretary of State Clinton is her vote for the Iraq War when she was a senator from NY, saying it shows a key difference in their decision-making ability that she supported the war and he did not.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday sought to downplay the policy gulfs between Donald Trump and his newly minted running mate, Mike Pence, on issues like trade, the Iraq War and Trump’s proposed Muslim ban. He co-sponsored and voted in favor of the bill authorizing the Iraq War when he was a House representative from Indiana, NBC reports.
Spehler asked Pence about his thoughts on Trump’s controversial campaign, asking Pence if he stands by some of Trump’s more controversial statements and how their dynamic will play out on the campaign trail. “He wont. I don’t, I didn’t ask him to do it, but I don’t think he should do it because it’s different for him”.
“He would have won very easily in Indiana”, Trump said, though polls have shown the race between Pence and Democrat John Gregg was a dead heat.
Donald Trump’s supporters have succeeded in heading off a state-by-state roll call vote on the rules that will govern the GOP’s national convention.
Followed by a question about waterboarding and another non-answer from Pence, interrupted by Trump.
Pence tells Stahl that he came to New York City soon after 9/11 – part of a delegation of members of Congress – and will “never forget that day”.
“Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of corruption”.
“To my fellow Hoosiers, thank you for the opportunities you’ve given our family to serve the state of IN”, said Pence. The 150 people in attendance at the Manhattan Hilton finally got to see Pence after half and hour but those who wanted to see the “partners” were left a bit disappointed.
The underwhelming rollout of the GOP ticket continued when Pence flew back home to IN without Trump.
Priebus, in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, again downplayed differences between Trump and Pence, this time over Planned Parenthood – which Pence has previously said he’d support shutting down by having the federal government defund the organization. “[Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan called me up immediately and said, ‘What a great choice, ‘” Trump says.
Trump said Pence has helped bring the party together.
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“Let’s make IN the first state on the board to make Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States and send another Hoosier to the Vice President’s office”. But shortly after the governor touched down on the East Coast, Trump declared in a television interview that he had not made a “final, final” decision.
