“I am going to have very few troops on the ground”.
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“I grew up with a front-row seat to the American dream”, he said.
“Statewide, I don’t know how you do your job full-time as governor and have issues of travelling around the country”.
The road to the White House just got that much longer.
The lack of hoopla contrasted with Mitt Romney’s introduction four years ago of running mate Paul Ryan on the deck of a Navy battleship, the USS Wisconsin, off the shore of swing-state Virginia. “It’s time for us to come together around this good man”, Pence said. And most say Trump’s naming him won’t affect their own vote. And on that score, Trump says he has already gotten important party approval for his choice of Pence. “Just so we understand”.
“Talking with him in private settings, I love the words you used because this man is awed with the American people, and he is not intimidated by the world”.
Watch the full interview here via 60 Minutes on CBS.
Donald Trump: Yeah, you went to Iraq, but that was handled so badly.
All this while, preparations are underway in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention where Mr Trump is set to officially become the party’s Presidential candidate, with Mr Pence at his side. “Once I said that, it was over”. We’re going to have unbelievable intelligence, which we need; which, right now, we don’t have.
When asked if he is comfortable with bringing back waterboarding, which Mr Trump has said that he wishes to reintroduce, Mr Pence pointedly avoided the question.
After Pence said Trump appreciates candour, Trump said he would like Pence to speak up if he thinks Trump did something wrong. “I might not do that”. We’re gonna declare war against ISIS.
“He has great experience, both in the U.S. Congress and as governor of in”, he said.
Donald Trump has named Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate in the race for USA presidency. In this poll, they would monitor mosques, something that half the public overall supports, though many aren’t sure it would be constitutional (Trump voters think it would be). I’m not a fan of Hillary either.
Priebus says the selection of Pence shows Trump didn’t want to surround himself with “yes people”.
Trump said he doesn’t care that Pence voted to invade Iraq, even though he has said the war was a mistake.
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Despite often citing Hillary Clinton’s endorsement of the Iraq War as a mark of her “bad judgement”, Mr Trump said he “didn’t care” that his potential vice president voted the same way.
