{"id":97724,"date":"2016-07-15T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=97724"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T16:27:54","slug":"trump-announces-mike-pence-as-vp-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-announces-mike-pence-as-vp-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump selects Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as VP running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnCoulter\/status\/753693687440375808\">officially selected<\/a> Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate. News conference tomorrow at 11:00 A.M.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/753965070003109888\">July 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pence has been Governor since 2012, and will not seek re-election as Indiana law prohibits running for two offices simultaneously. Before that, he spent twelve years representing Indiana in the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Pence holds a <a href=\"http:\/\/votesmart.org\/candidate\/evaluations\/34024\/mike-pence#.V4kG9I7emRs\">100% pro-life record<\/a> with the National Right to Life Committee and 0% scores with Planned Parenthood and NARAL. His <a href=\"\/news\/absurd-periods-for-pence-launched-protest-indiana-abortion-law\/\">most recent major pro-life action<\/a> was signing a law that bans abortions for genetic abnormalities, race, or sex; requires ultrasounds before abortions and admitting privileges for abortionists; and mandates that aborted babies be either buried or cremated.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is <a href=\"\/news\/pro-lifers-to-meet-with-trump-over-concerns-about-abortion-record\/\">running as a pro-life candidate, though doubts remain for many pro-lifers<\/a> due to both his recent past as \u201cvery pro-choice\u201d and a variety of statements he made during this election season. While discussion over Trump himself will continue among the pro-life movement, many are surely relieved that he did not tap retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, one of his foreign policy advisers, who has made a <a href=\"\/news\/potential-trump-vp-reverses-course-now-calls-himself-a-pro-life-democrat\/\">number of inconsistent statements<\/a> on abortion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the primary, Pence eventually endorsed Texas Senator Ted Cruz just before the Indiana vote that ended Cruz&#8217;s candidacy, but <a href=\"\/news\/potential-trump-vp-reverses-course-now-calls-himself-a-pro-life-democrat\/\">he was widely criticized<\/a> for refusing to strongly affirm that Cruz was preferable to Trump in doing so: \u201cI\u2019m not against anybody, but I will be voting for Ted Cruz in the upcoming Republican primary [&#8230;] I urge everyone to make up their own mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump reportedly selected Pence for his governing experience as someone who could help the businessman, who has never held elected office, navigate the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has officially selected Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate. News conference tomorrow at 11:00 A.M. &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":92054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[3581,3885,131,593,615,9449],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump selects Indiana Gov. 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