Thread: Pence endorses all GOP congressional incumbents

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  Republican Vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence reacts to the audience following a town hall meeting in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
  
  
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  By The Associated Press
  Posted Aug. 4, 2016 at 6:08 PM
  Updated Aug 4, 2016 at 9:39 PM
  
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) " The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times local):
  
  6:34 p.m.
  A spokesman says Mike Pence is endorsing all GOP congressional incumbents who are seeking re-election even as Donald Trump hesitates to support several of the party's most prominent members of Congress.
  
  The mass endorsement is the latest attempt by Pence to smooth over turmoil within the Republican Party stirred by Trump in recent days.
  
  Trump previously refused to endorse Arizona Sen. John McCain, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
  
  Before issuing the blanket endorsement Thursday, Pence on Wednesday endorsed Ryan in his GOP primary, which is next week.
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  6:21 p.m.
  Donald Trump says the best deal he could negotiate as president would be "peace all over the world." And no, Trump adds, he's not quitting the presidential race despite one of the most difficult weeks of his campaign.
  He tells a Maine newspaper that "we fought very hard, I spent tremendous numbers of hours and days and months winning...and here I am." He adds that he's "really happy with his standing, despite a week in which he's clashed with Republican Party leaders, kicked a crying baby out of his rally and kept up a spat with the Muslim American parents of an Army veteran killed in Iraq.
  Asked by the Portland Press Herald on Thursday what's the best deal he could negotiate as president, Trump replied, "Peace all over the world."
  He added, "And I think I would know how to do it better than anybody else."
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  5:39 p.m.
  Indiana Gov. Mike Pence spent the last year trying to avoid talk about conservative social issues. Now that he's Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee, he's happy to wade in.
  Pence told a questioner at a town hall rally in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Thursday that civil rights protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people are best addressed at the local level " not nationally.
  Pence has deep support from social conservatives. But his approval rating in Indiana took a dive after he signed a religious objections law that critics said sanctioned discrimination against gays and lesbians on religious grounds.
  Critics viewed it as an attempt to overrule local ordinances granting LGBT civil rights protections. The law was changed to prohibit discrimination after it provoked a national backlash.
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  5:20 p.m.
  President Barack Obama has a suggestion for Donald Trump and his claims that the election will be rigged: "Go out there and try to win the election."
  Obama said Trump's recent suggestions that this fall's election won't be completely fair are "ridiculous."
  
  http://www.pratttribune.com/news/201...nal-incumbents

What a slimy establishment sellout... it bodes very ill that Trump selected RINO Pence as his VP running mate.

W

We knew it was a bad pick, he should have gone with Scott Brown. But he was chasing "unity" to no avail. His policies will never "unify" the Republican Globalist Elites. He should have kept Corey for the election itself, use Manafort for the convention delegate endeavor but keep Corey for the actual campaign.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

What a slimy establishment sellout... it bodes very ill that Trump selected RINO Pence as his VP running mate.

W

I'm afraid to see what might come next.

And there it is:

Trump expected to endorse Ryan Friday