Pence Confirmed As Trump VP; Some React Positively, Others Not So Much
As Nathan reported yesterday, it appears that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, confirmed on Twitter (where else?) and an official announcement planned for Saturday morning.
I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate. News conference tomorrow at 11:00 A.M.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2016
Georgia Senator David Perdue, who has emerged as one of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters, issued this statement following Trump’s announcment:
Donald Trump is an outsider and businessman who is listening to the American people and working to advance their priorities. I’m glad Mr. Trump has chosen Governor Mike Pence to help him lead that change in Washington. Governor Pence is a conservative leader and champion of our Founding Principles of economic opportunity, fiscal responsibility, limited government, and individual liberty. I’m excited to work with the Trump-Pence ticket as we turn the page from the failed liberal policies of Obama and Clinton and change the direction of our country.
The fact that Pence had been selected as Veep was further cemented with the campaign logo at right, which was quickly mocked.
Looking at social media, it appears that Governor Pence’s handling of Indiana’s RFRA law was cause for concern for potential voters. Some conservative Republicans were upset that Pence watered down the bill following complaints from businesses and sports figures after it passed in 2015, while some moderates and independents didn’t like the fact that Pence hadn’t vetoed the bill completely. Other conservatives noted that Indiana had approved Medicaid expansion under Pence’s watch.
The next stop after the official announcement at 11 Saturday morning is the convention itself, which begins on Monday.
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Early each day, to many town halls,
The short-fingered orange haired one comes.
In his own special way to the racists he calls,
“Make ‘Merica great again!”
“Build a big-ass wall, keep out the brown,
And you’ll be glad if you do,
‘Cause you can’t get a job when the factory’s shut down,
The ticket is TRUMP-PENCE for you!”
Feed the fears, TRUMP-PENCE will do,
TRUMP-PENCE, TRUMP-PENCE, TRUMP-PENCE for you!
Feed the fears of those different guys,
While in DC Lady Liberty cries.
All around this whole nation the establishment
Runs far far away from him.
Although they deserve it, they can’t even fathom
How far they have fallen — it’s grim.
Though his words are fourth grade at best,
Listen, listen, to his religious test.
Constitutional scholar he’s not,
TRUMP-PENCE, TRUMP-PENCE — hate’s all they’ve got.
Not sure how this widens the tent?
Exactly my White Little Friend….Always better to pander to the minorities right? “Look at me? I’ll protect you from the evil white man and his police force….oh, you’ll earn $15 an hour flipping burgers even though you couldn’t even earn a high school degree.” Meanwhile, Unions continue their parasitic relationship of minimum wage workers.
And I say that as a first generation American. And I’ll never vote for Trump or Killary.
Feel the same way about police unions?
Well at least they had a first class logo ready to go.
Is that not the best logo ever? Trump is on top of Pence; sticking something into him. A chubby finger…or something else? This just makes me wish it was Palin as VP.
This election has gone on for so long but stuff like this kinda makes me wish it will never end.
I’m predicting the latest twist…..Hillary picks Trump as her VP.
Why is he basically tied? Why are Dems so scared?
You know more than guys running? WOW! They should just fire their staff, and call you, and or just read this site!
You seem to have no problem thinking you know more than anyone else, based on a handful of polls taken after a couple of weeks of events that are favorable to Trump. Trump will probably get a further bounce post-convention, providing delegates keep their clothes on in public and there isn’t too much blood in the streets, although I expect he’d benefit from a little head-knocking. Polls aren’t destiny and July isn’t November.
We can all pretty much agree that if more chaos occurs it plays right into Trumps wheelhouse. Reagan Dems will become Trump Dems.
How’s about a wager?
Trump wins and I’ll eat my laptop.
What do you wager?
Huh, I posted a story in a well respected political magazine, The Hill which reported Democrat Senators are scared about recent polling numbers. That is beyond just “thinking”? Personally I think Pence was a bad choice, Trump should of gone wider tent, that is what I was thinking. But Trump is trending in the right direction, I could be way off, because I am shocked after recent negative press he is trending well,
Donks are scared because they know they might lose. Do you think they’re stupid just because you don’t agree with their politics? Even if Clinton’s lead were bigger, the pros in the campaign will continue to keep donors and activists from taking a win for granted.
My point was Andrew was looking at the polling trends from a very bias view, Obviously Trump is polling better….not sure he will win, trends are trends….
Well, I guess that gets the Hoosier state into Trump’s column—not that there really should be much doubt about that; in the last 50 years, Indiana has voted Democratic for president just once, narrowly for Obama in 2008. Christie would not have given Trump New Jersey (Christie’s approval rating is so low there, he certainly desperately wants “out” before his second term would end), and either Christie or Gingrich could have rivaled Trump for attention, which is contrary to the norm of the attention being on the presidential candidate, not his lieutenant (one reason Hillary would not pick Elizabeth Warren, even aside from the fact Massachusetts is pretty reliable D territory at the presidential level).
But in any event vice presidential candidates usually don’t win you elections. The last time a VP really mattered was in 1960, when LBJ certainly help JFK win several southern states in a region then suspicious of a Catholic candidate for president. Quayle did not damage Bush the first in 1988 (though doubtless a lot of voters then would have preferred splitting their ticket between Bush and Lloyd Bentsen, the Democratic vice presidential nominee). Obama could have picked about anyone in 2008 for VP, given how toxic the GOP brand was back then.
It’s all in the messaging. Pence is the power bottom; look at the logo.
http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2016/news/160314/donald-hillary-800.jpg
#LogoFail: Trump/Pence campaign scrubs “screw you” branding after one day of massive ridicule
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/logofail-trumppence-campaign-scrubs-screw-you-branding-after-one-day-of-massive-ridicule/
Yes, that is an odd-looking logo. I think it can be hard to get interlocking letters to look right. For instance, GT does it very well.
The St Louis Cardinals manage three interlocking letters without offending anyone.