Pence wins Trump’s vote; GOP team addresses America Saturday

Trump’s image is shaky with movement conservatives, with whom Pence has closely associated throughout his 15-year career. And his solidly conventional political background runs counter to Trump’s anti-establishment mantra.

Trump is set to be formally nominated as the party’s candidate for the presidential election at the convention, which opens in Cleveland on Monday.

Trump said Pence had done a great job in IN and that of all the people he had interviewed for the job, “there’s nobody that agrees with me fully on everything”. Pence has been a longtime advocate of trade deals such as NAFTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership, both of which Trump opposes. And while he condemned Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, he also tried to suspend the settlement of Syrian refugees in his state. A steady conservative with extensive governing experience, Pence may also serve to reassure Republicans who are skeptical about Trump’s conservative bona fides. In 2015 he provoked a national backlash after signing a law that critics said would have allowed businesses to deny service to gay people for religious reasons. In a 1991 essay titled “Confessions of a Negative Campaigner”, Pence swore off harsh political tactics he used in “one of the most divisive and negative campaigns in Indiana’s modern congressional history” while calling for “basic human decency”.

– The official logo for the Donald Trump-Mike Pence presidential-ticket shows a blue “T” for Trump passing through the negative space in the top loop of a blue “P” for Pence beside some red and white horizontal blocks. The governor flew on a private plane to NY and appeared ready to join the formal announcement.

A few hours later, a huge truck barreled through a crowded holiday celebration in Nice, France, killing more than 80 people.

The billionaire businessman then went on Fox News to say he had not yet settled on his “final, final” choice.

“But I will play as significant a role as possible getting us back on the right track and reforming our government so that it functions again on behalf of the American people instead of behalf of lobbyists and bureaucrats”, Gingrich said.

Christie was also hit with a scandal when former mentor and ally David Samson, who the Republican governor tapped as chairman of the Port Authority of NY and New Jersey, pleaded guilty Thursday to using his position to pressure United Airlines to reinstate a flight from Newark to Columbia, South Carolina, to make it easier to get to his vacation home.

Donald Trump presented running mate Mike Pence to the nation Saturday, hailing the IN governor as his “first choice” and “my partner IN the campaign”. He had until Friday at noon to withdraw his name from the ballot in his bid for reelection as in governor.

Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, strongly rejected suggestions that the candidate considered changing his mind about Pence.

Even as US media cited sources saying Trump had decided on Pence, Trump fueled suspicion that he was waffling when he said Thursday he had yet to make “my final, final decision”.

In an effort to diversify his support Trump has declared that the vice-president version of himself, “Will be one quarter Mexican, one quarter Jewish, one quarter African-American and one quarter Orange Tang”. In a brief interview with The Associated Press Friday morning, Gingrich said he had still not been told by Trump that he would not be the choice.

McAuliffe, a close friend of Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has sought without success to win support for Medicaid expansion in the Virginia General Assembly. Priebus says Pence also helps Trump politically by drawing in conservative groups that may have been slow to come to Trump’s side. The person would only speak on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting. Tim Kaine, in northern Virginia.