“It’s not the government’s job to decide how people live their lives. I look forward to getting people in office who will let people be who they are”.
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Pence past year was at the center of nationwide controversy by signing into law Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
McDermott also took issue with Pence’s refusal to accept about $80 million in federal funds for a statewide pre-kindergarten program.
Clinton’s campaign also was said to be vetting retired Navy Admiral James Stavridis – dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University near Boston and a former supreme allied commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – as a potential vice presidential running mate, a source told Reuters on Tuesday.
Next up on Democrat’s hit list are economic issues, where they’ll tag him with supporting the budget outlined by House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Lenkowsky isn’t as quick to buy the argument that a potential Pence vice presidency is the result of a gubernatorial race tipping out of the incumbent’s favor.
And you could also make the case Pence’s departure would be a blessing in disguise for Republicans.
Jeff Cardwell, one of Pence’s closest acquaintances and GOP colleague, acknowledged Pence as a person that “works very hard to unite and to bring people together as a team”. The Republican-controlled House Education Committee then proposed a bill to “strip the superintendent’s position as chair of the State Board of Education”.
Donald Trump Jr. told MSNBC that his father was deciding among Pence, Gingrich and Christie. The leader of a red state in the Rust Belt, he is a former six-term Congressman and a member of the GOP leadership, familiar with Capitol Hill.
Pence confirmed as Trump’s VP.
Pressed to verify the reports that Pence was Trump’s guy, Christie denied to Wallace that he knew the likely nominee’s pick. We’re very good friends.
However, the IN governor has found common ground with Trump on some national security issues – especially when it comes to criticizing President Barack Obama.
But some experts say the choice of Pence would not help Trump expand his voter base, especially among independents and moderate Republicans, to whom the Democrat Hillary Clinton is expected to reach out.
With Pence presumably out of the IN governor’s race, Tatgenhorst says the strategy for him and Libertarian Governor nominee Rex Bell won’t change much, but it does put “a change of pace on things”.
Mr Pence has a low profile outside Washington and Indiana. “That was the same agenda we planned on running against with Pence”. However, Dr. Smith said that may solidify Trump’s support among evangelicals and social conservatives. But he wasn’t upset when Trump clinched the Republican nomination with a win in his home state a few months back. This election year presents an unusually clear moral choice.
“They would love to draw the United States into a ground war in Syria”, she said.
The publisher of the Portland Commercial Review said, “I think it is a ludicrous idea…the notion of elected officials presenting material that will inevitably have a pro-administration point of view is antithetical to the idea of an independent press”.
Mr Bopp described a cascading effect of confusion because IN does not allow candidates to run for two offices at the same time. “A federal judge blocked Pence’s action, writing that the governor’s order “clearly constitutes national origin discrimination” and “in no way directly, or even indirectly, promotes the safety of in citizens”.
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After spending much of Thursday in Indianapolis, Pence flew to NY, according to a Republican familiar with the process. “All sales are final!” Fox News says it is suspending its contributor agreement with Newt Gingrich “due to the intense media speculation” about him as a potential vice presidential candidate of Republican Donald Trump.
