Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, introduces Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., during a campaign event to announce Pence as the vice presidential running mate on, Saturday, July 16, 2016, in NY.
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Steady Conservative Record…” “Indiana Gov. Mike Pence brings plenty of experience to the Trump ticket.
As the night concluded, the New York Times published an interview with Trump in which the candidate broke sharply with decades of US foreign policy.
Pence has close ties to the GOP establishment and with conservatives. During his time in Congress, before becoming governor in 2012, he repeatedly called for taking away federal funding for Planned Parenthood. And it means that campaign chief Paul Manafort had been wrong the day before when he said there was no copying, and blamed the media, the Clintons, and anybody else he could think of for claiming there was. He lagged behind Democratic challenger John Gregg in polls of likely women voters in Indiana’s gubernatorial race.
“Maybe they can just hide their differences by agreeing that President Barack Obama has been a bad president and Secretary Clinton was a bad secretary of state”, Kristol said. Pence is also preparing to play an active role on the fundraising circuit, tapping his strong connections to some of the GOP’s deepest pockets to help raise millions of dollars for the Trump campaign.
“We can not have four more years of apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends”, the IN governor told a partisan crowd IN Cleveland.
Pence played to conservatives in criticizing President Barack Obama for taking “unconstitutional actions” through his use of executive action on immigration and gun control.
When Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants a year ago, Pence rejected the proposal in a post on Twitter: “Calls to ban Muslims from entering the USA are offensive and unconstitutional”.
Picking up from some of his speech yesterday, Pence appealed to certain parts of Pennsylvania with his “Trump digs coal” message; to loud applause, he condemned the loss of coal mining jobs.
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He said Trump is known for his “charisma” and “large personality”. He joked that Trump is charismatic and must have been looking for balance in choosing him. “We need a president who will advance American energy independence on all of the above, and I promise you Trump digs coal”, Pence said.
