The Pence income tax cut amounts to an estimated $265 million in taxpayer savings this budget year, DeBoer said.
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He can’t directly transfer it to the presidential campaign; federal campaign finance laws don’t allow that.
“He balances Mr. Trump out in terms of personalities”, says political science professor Andrew Downs, director of the Center for Indiana Politics at Indiana University-Purdue University in Fort Wayne.
“This is really an honor, and we’re going to win Ohio”, Trump told supporters at a brief arrival ceremony after greeting his children and running mate Mike Pence.
In his second campaign, Pence would use such nasty attack ads against his opponent, Democrat Philip Sharp that they “backfired”, according to Sharp, giving a much larger victory over his GOP opponent.
Trump picked Pence as his running mate last week after days of unusual and very public deliberations. His campaign says they have more than $6 million in their campaign fund. The leading GOP contenders have a fraction of that. Pence, who is deeply religious, alluded to Gingrich’s three marriages Tuesday.
And Pence could get knocked out of the news if something unexpected happens at a convention not lacking in surprises and short on message discipline.
When Mike Pence gives his acceptance speech this evening, nowhere will there be more emotion than right at the IN delegation. – Trump while introducing Pence on Saturday.
Regardless of who becomes the party’s nominee, Republicans don’t see themselves at a disadvantage in November.
“Ronald Reagan would be ashamed”. “There will be situations in which you meet with your generals, study your intelligence and maybe there’s a decisive action we could take that would change the whole situation, but that’s the kind of thing that just takes the best intelligence and the president has to be smart – make tough calls – and I think Trump can do that”.
If Donald Trump chose Mike Pence to make the ticket more palatable, he succeeded with some in the OH delegation Wednesday night.
Pence has gotten his biggest response from crowds in making the case against Clinton, and that’s likely to be the case again Wednesday.
The audience, built largely of conservative thought leaders and activists, represented the natural constituency of Pence, who has been fighting alongside them in politics for three decades.
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Asked what Pence needs to do in his speech, Wisconsin Sen. “We support our governor”, Cheney said.
