Trump announces Indiana’s Pence as VP running mate

“I don’t care”, Trump said on CBS’s “60 Minutes” in his first joint interview with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, whom Trump announced Friday will join him on the Republican ticket. However, Pence and his low-key demeanor was overshadowed by Trump and his brash interjections.

He said Pence would stand up to America’s enemies and that he and the governor represent “the law-and-order candidates” at home. He added: “He’s a solid, solid person”.

Pence, standing alone in front of American flags, hewed closely to the populist themes that Trump has voiced on the campaign trail, describing himself as “really just a small-town boy”. He praised Trump effusively as “a good man”, a fighter, a legendary businessman and a patriotic American. “We’re exhausted of being told that this is as good as it gets. We’re exhausted of having politicians in both parties in Washington D.C. tell us: We’ll get to those problems tomorrow”. But he said Republicans should not miss the opportunity that Clinton’s email issues provide in the election, calling her “the most flawed nominee for their party in my lifetime”.

Trump reportedly also revealed in the interview that part of the reason why he picked Pence as his running mate was in an effort to unify the party.

Republican Donald Trump is defending his new running mate Mike Pence’s support for the Iraq War, despite criticizing rival Hillary Clinton for voting to authorize it. “I don’t want to be an outsider”.

Trump has continued to claim on the campaign trail that he was opposed to the Iraq War before the US launched its invasion – and the “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday once again raised the specter of that contradiction. (Miffed religious zealots are of great concern to the GOP these days.) The backlash cost the state millions of dollars in lost revenue and forced Pence to claim that he didn’t mean the legislation to infringe upon anyone’s rights, by now a familiar litany from Republican politicians who don’t get away with their hate-fueled agendas.

Mr. Trump eventually settled on IN governor Mike Pence as his running mate.

“I also admire the fact that he fights for the people and he also is going to fight for you”. He predicted that Pence would have won re-election as governor, were he not running for vice president. But in giving a pretty standard speech of a No. 2, Pence showed he understood who’ll always have the spotlight.

Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort says if there any such attempt, “the party and Trump are going to rise against it”. “We’re gonna not let people come in from Syria that nobody knows who they are”. He also said the Pence family planned to return to the governor’s residence in Indianapolis for “pizza night”.

Clinton’s team was already painting Pence’s conservative social viewpoints as out of step with the mainstream.

“No. She’s not”, Trump replied.

Christie’s own bid for the White House was among 16 other Republicans crushed under the Trump bandwagon. NAFTA is the worst economic deal in the history of our country.

Priebus tells CNN “there is no religious test on the table”, despite Trump’s statement in December calling for a temporary ban of foreign Muslims from entering the USA until elected leaders could figure out “what is going on”. He also endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (“who’s a good guy, by the way”).