IndyStar Confirms: Gov. Mike Pence Is Trump’s VP Pick
The Indianapolis Star reports they have confirmed that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is Donald Trump’s VP pick.
Gov. Mike Pence is dropping his re-election bid in Indiana to become Donald Trump’s running mate.
IndyStar has confirmed that Trump plans to announce Pence as his selection for vice president, ending a weeks-long vice presidential casting call during which Trump vetted a handful of high-profile Republicans.
Pence is well known as a very hardline social conservative, and built his base among the neocon crowd by being a strong supporter of the invasion of Iraq. Donald Trump has been viciously attacking Hillary Clinton for voting to invade Iraq, of course; but cognitive dissonance, dishonesty and hypocrisy are defining characteristics of his campaign, so don’t expect him (or the media, for that matter) to even notice this disconnect.
Since I’m always interested to know where Republicans stand on the issue of science and evolution in particular, I searched YouTube and discovered this clip from 2009 of Pence on the Chris Matthews show, refusing to answer whether he accepts the scientific theory of evolution. Pence is hardly alone in this regressive nonsense; it’s the default Republican position.
Pence is also a strong proponent of forced invasive ultrasounds for women seeking abortions, and signed a bill into law that requires miscarried or aborted fetuses to have funerals.
The measure, House Enrolled Act 1337, would make Indiana only the second state to prohibit a woman from seeking an abortion because her fetus was diagnosed with a disability such as Down syndrome. It also would prohibit abortions when they are sought based on the gender or race of a fetus, and would require the remains of miscarried or aborted fetuses to be interred or cremated.
