(The last one to do it was John Nance Garner, who ran against FDR when the president sought a then-unprecedented third term in 1940.) Pence starts this race in a weaker position than most former vice presidents who’ve sought the presidency, few of whom ever challenged their running mates. And Trump abandoned those politics because Ryan, as the party’s 2012 nominee for vice president, got clobbered.
On the latter, Pence sounded more like former House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose politics have been abandoned by MAGA Republicans, than most Republicans running for president. On both issues, Trump’s taken the position that polls best - letting states write their own abortion laws, and refusing to ever cut Medicare or Social Security. “When Trump literally says, now on the negotiating table because of me - what’s on the negotiating table? Which children live and which ones don’t? I think that’s going to be an important separation.” “Mike’s proud of the record of the administration,” Marc Short, one of Pence’s senior advisors, told Semafor. He made clear he would embrace the administration’s record, while treating Trump’s efforts to overturn the election as a red line - a stance that could put pressure on other candidates to take a clearer position themselves.īut Pence also made the pitch that he was a more reliable Reagan-style conservative than Trump, saying that the former president was “retreating from the cause of the unborn” and accusing him of echoing Joe Biden by refusing to tackle entitlement reform.
6, far more aggressively in many ways than his public remarks in the aftermath of the riot itself. He spent a surprising amount of time condemning Trump’s behavior on Jan. In less than seven hours, the tweet garnered nearly 2,000 retweets and over 2,200 likes (shown below).īy early afternoon, the new Trump-Pence logo had been declared as the latest meme to emerge from the race to the White House by several political blogs and news outlets, including The Daily Beast, Politico, NPR and CNN, among others.Pence is offering what many frustrated conservatives say they’ve long craved - the policies of the Trump years, with no place for Trump himself. Within the hour of its unveiling, the new Trump-Pence logo became a hot topic of discussions upon entering circulation on Twitter, with many viewers placing an emphasis on the suggestive nature of the interlocked letters featured in the logo.Īt 12:05 p.m., tweeted an animated GIF version of the Trump-Pence logo in response to Twitter user Judd Legum's more charitable interpretation of the interlocked letters. Shortly after the announcement, Make America Great Again Committee, the joint fundraising committee between Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee, sent out an email newsletter to the supporters unveiling a new logo for the campaign, which features an interlocked combination of the letters T and P (for Trump and Pence) on a red-and-blue flag resembling the Star Spangled Banner. On July 15th, 2016, after days of rumored reports that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is vetting Indiana's Republican governor Mike Pence as his running mate in the upcoming presidential campaign, Trump officially confirmed the rumors via Twitter by announcing that he has chosen Pence as the vice presidential candidate.
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