Their first interview got viewers into a cringe-worthy feast as Donald Trump didn’t give him a chance to speak.
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“Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of corruption”.
“I don’t think I needed him, no, because I won with evangelicals”, he said. Sources in the GOP indicated that as late as Thursday night Trump was still undecided about who he would make his “first choice” for the position.
Trump took the lead for the majority of the interview, with Pence speaking about 50 times and Trump more than 100.
After making that statement, Trump didn’t lay out the case for why Pence was his pick, other than the party above unity.
“What a difference between crooked Hilary Clinton and Mike Pence”, Trump said during his almost 30 minute speech introducing Pence.
“When he became governor he passed quite a few laws that some of which were controversial like Right to Work, which brought new industry into Indiana”, Mosel said.
Trump blamed his Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton for ISIL’s creation, saying she was “responsible” for its atrocities.
Pence has been a longtime advocate of trade deals such as NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, both aggressively opposed by Trump.
And in the early months of the war, when it appeared to most to be a military success, Trump agreed with that analysis.
Pence, standing alone in front of American flags, hewed closely to the populist themes that Trump has voiced on the campaign trail, describing himself as “really just a small-town boy”.
“Your support and Indiana’s example has carried us to this moment”, Pence said.
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After being asked what life has been like following the announcement, Karen Pence joked they have gone from being followed by 3 to 4 cameras to about 25. 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. “Once I said that, it was over”. In particular, she emphasized that social conservatives have not necessarily been behind Trump, contrary to Bernstein’s analysis. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and campaigned with Cruz in Indiana.
