WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has chosen Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, adding political experience and conservative bona fides to his Republican presidential ticket. Trump announced his decision on Twitter Friday morning, capping a frenzied 24 hours of speculation about his choice.
Trump offered the vice presidential spot to Pence Thursday, and the governor boarded a plane for New York in anticipation of a Friday announcement, according to a Republican with knowledge of the process. But shortly after Pence arrived, Trump abruptly said he was postponing an announcement because of the deadly attack in Nice, France, that left more than 80 people dead.
The staunchly conservative Pence, who is 57, served six terms in Congress before being elected governor and could help Trump navigate Capitol Hill. He's well-regarded by evangelical Christians, particularly after signing a law that critics said would allow businesses to deny service to gay people for religious reasons.
Trump's announcement came about an hour before a deadline for Pence to withdraw from his re-election race in Indiana. State law prohibits candidates from being on the ballot in two races.
Donald Trump's campaign manager may have just lost the presidential race for him, and it only took five words.
“He emotionally reacted to it,” Paul Manafort told Chris Cuomo on CNN, explaining why Trump postponed a press conference to announce his vice presidential pick in the wake of the attack that killed dozens of people in Nice, France.
To be fair, there was more to Manafort’s answer than that. “It really bothered him to see that carnage and he felt the pain of the people there, and he said ‘it’s just not right to do something self- serving and political the morning after,’” he said of Trump.
And to be even more perfectly fair, Cuomo kept saying things like “I get that” and was more interested in why Trump was continuing to pretend he had not made a final pick when Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and various aides had already flown to New York for the announcement.
But there are many, many ways those five words may come to haunt Trump, starting with this: They crystallize his approach to pretty much everything — including campaign strategy, policy-making, the press, the Constitution, people who criticize him, political rivals and foreign leaders. They are Hillary Clinton’s “Daisy” ad. All she needs to do is run those five words as a continuous loop against video of nuclear weapons and mushroom clouds.
Trump may indeed have been trying to show sensitivity in the face of tragedy, but he went ahead with fundraising in California and made plenty of news on Fox News all night. As the crew at NBC’s First Read asked so trenchantly, “Why cancel your VP announcement event because of France, but then call in, twice, to Fox?”
So the Governor of Indiana has decided that the government needs to be a part of a women's reproductive cycle. The law puts extremely unneeded regulations on abortion. To the point that a wanted pregnancy that ends in miscarriage is to be regulated. Someone made Periods for Pence and one of my fellow Hoosiers are reporting the status of their uterus to the governor.
The law bans abortion motivated by fetal abnormalities as well as other fetal characteristics. It also tightens several other restrictions on abortion.
In a statement, Pence described the law as "a comprehensive pro-life measure that affirms the value of all human life." He doesn't appear to have formally commented on the campaign.
In the early days of the Periods for Pence effort, the organizer highlighted one aspect of the law — it requires miscarried fetuses, as well as aborted fetuses, to be "interred or cremated by a facility having possession of the remains," regardless of the age of the fetus.
"Fertilized eggs can be expelled during a woman's period without a woman even knowing that she might have had the potential blastocyst in her. Therefore, any period could potentially be a miscarriage without knowledge. I would certainly hate for any of my fellow Hoosier women to be at risk of penalty if they do not 'properly dispose' of this or report it. Just to cover our bases, perhaps we should make sure to contact Governor Pence's office to report our periods. We wouldn't want him thinking that THOUSANDS OF HOOSIER WOMEN A DAY are trying to hide anything, would we?"
It's funny how you want to pick apart Trump's VP but yet can't bring yourself to acknowledge Hillary's crimes and her incompetent leadership. Go figure.
It's funny how you want to pick apart Trump's VP but yet can't bring yourself to acknowledge Hillary's crimes and her incompetent leadership. Go figure.
It's funny how two people can interpret the same events so differently!
Well, that's because some of us operate in the land of Reality. Where a person with a penis is called a Man and a person with a vagina is called a Woman. However, in your world, anything goes so your "reality" is whatever you imagine it to be i guess.
Well, that's because some of us operate in the land of Reality. Where a person with a penis is called a Man and a person with a vagina is called a Woman. However, in your world, anything goes so your "reality" is whatever you imagine it to be i guess.
