Unbelievable !
Holding Pence out of the spotlight as the guy who would be part of a ‘good guy’ in a ‘good cop’ vs Trump as the’ bad cop’?
WTF is gonna but this?
Mike Trump as the guy who can corral/stabilise Donald Trump?
This is a joke, right?
When Donald Trump’s reelection team shamelessly acknowledged during a World Series campaign commercial that America’s 45th president is “no Mr. Nice Guy,” it was doing more than shock-and-awe advertising.
Noticeably absent from the 30-second spot was the president’s genteel sidekick: Mike Pence. Save for a Situation Room photo used to show voters that Trump is “obliterating ISIS,” the vice president was unseen and unheard — his invisibility every bit as calculated as the ad itself.
For Pence to be an effective surrogate in 2020, campaign officials say his reputation must be preserved. If the goal is to build a winning coalition that includes seniors, suburban women and swing-state residents suffering from Trump fatigue, someone has to be the nice guy.
“Pence gives people confidence who lack comfort with our circus,” said a person close to Trump. “He helps provide stability, which is critical.”
It’s the same good cop, bad cop routine voters saw in 2016, but it will be even more pronounced on the campaign trail this cycle as the president’s team works to overcome an anti-Trump animus that has seeped into suburban pockets of electorally crucial states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Much of the strategy is driven by internal data and public polling that Pence and campaign officials have paid close attention to since last year’s midterm elections, when the Republican Party lost its grip on many higher-income suburban areas…..
image…businessinsider.com
I have a hard time seeing right wing evangelical Mike Pence having much sway in suburban swing states and districts.
Neither do I…..
The idea that Mike Pence could be sold as the ‘good guy’ to Trump is batshit crazy on EVERY Level….
And?
THIS is why i believe Trump leaving the stage WILL cause some problems for GOPer’s that may actually realize they have been in a REALLY BAD trance….
When Pence was put on the ticket our supposedly liberal media was busy touting Trump as a “different kind if Republican”.
Pence was there to mollify the evangelical base–not to woo any suburban fiscal conservative social liberals.
Three years in Trump is the whoremonger who is also doing everything the religious Republican right wants. Those voters are on board for Trump again no question.
Pence has been arguably Trump’s most loyal supporter. Conservative Christians would have supported Trump anyway, but Pence is very widely respected with his base, and to see him fold so effortlessly into Trump’s pocket has to be a partial explanation of why Conservative Christian’s are Trump’s biggest supporters.