CLEVELAND, United States: Donald Trump is introducing Mike Pence as his running mate, calling Indiana’s governor “his first choice” to join him on the Republican presidential ticket.
Trump spoke with Pence on Saturday morning in a ballroom of a New York City hotel, a day after first introducing his choice for vice president in a Friday morning tweet.
The billionaire businessman strode first onto the stage that featured a backdrop of 10 American flags. The event did not feature any new “Trump-Pence” signs, instead displaying the standard “Trump” podium sign.
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee was cheered by a crowd of several hundred friends and local Republicans. He said he would champion “law and order” in the wake of this week’s terror attack in France.
He says of the new Republican ticket, “we are the law and order candidates.”
Hillary Clinton’s campaign had earlier seized on the suggestion that Trump may have wavered in making his vice presidential pick.
Clinton’s campaign released a web video early Saturday highlighting the campaign’s mixed signals and Trump’s contradictory statements about where he was in the selection process in the lead-up to his announcement Friday morning ofPence.
The ad’s tagline says: “Donald Trump. Always divisive. Not so decisive.”
Trump’s campaign has strongly rejected the idea Trump had second thoughts about Pence. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort says Trump “never waffled” once he made his decision.
Trump and Pence are scheduled to make their first joint appearance Saturday morning in New York.
Pence is a favorite among Evangelical voters and the Republican Party’s conservative base. He was picked after Trump’s days-long and unusually public deliberation process.
Aides said the two men are not expected to take questions at Saturday’s announcement event.
It will take place in the same ballroom where Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio raised eyebrows by making a racially-questionable joke during a charity event this spring.
Trump spoke with Pence on Saturday morning in a ballroom of a New York City hotel, a day after first introducing his choice for vice president in a Friday morning tweet.
The billionaire businessman strode first onto the stage that featured a backdrop of 10 American flags. The event did not feature any new “Trump-Pence” signs, instead displaying the standard “Trump” podium sign.
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee was cheered by a crowd of several hundred friends and local Republicans. He said he would champion “law and order” in the wake of this week’s terror attack in France.
He says of the new Republican ticket, “we are the law and order candidates.”
Hillary Clinton’s campaign had earlier seized on the suggestion that Trump may have wavered in making his vice presidential pick.
Clinton’s campaign released a web video early Saturday highlighting the campaign’s mixed signals and Trump’s contradictory statements about where he was in the selection process in the lead-up to his announcement Friday morning ofPence.
The ad’s tagline says: “Donald Trump. Always divisive. Not so decisive.”
Trump’s campaign has strongly rejected the idea Trump had second thoughts about Pence. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort says Trump “never waffled” once he made his decision.
Trump and Pence are scheduled to make their first joint appearance Saturday morning in New York.
Pence is a favorite among Evangelical voters and the Republican Party’s conservative base. He was picked after Trump’s days-long and unusually public deliberation process.
Aides said the two men are not expected to take questions at Saturday’s announcement event.
It will take place in the same ballroom where Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio raised eyebrows by making a racially-questionable joke during a charity event this spring.
