Pence would be a great president on his own perfect choice for trump ty for sharing

would be good for you to learn about your next vice president

Omg he didnt.

Pence was a good pick.

Christie or Gingrich would have had a lot more baggage.

Pence helps solidify the Conservative and Christian base for Trump. The party hadn't quite coalesced around Trump yet, and this will help.

Pence supported the iraq war and supports the TPP, two issues that Trump has been criticising Hillary on.

If she is clever she will use this to her advantage and destroy Trump.

He was against the '08 bailout and budget deficits though. He's a mixed bag. Partial liability still.

Pence is obviously going to have to flip on those issues.

Trump is a unique candidate. His nomination was a hostile takeover of the GOP. He wasn't going to find anyone who agreed with him on every issue.

But Trump needed to rally his Conservative and Evangelical base. Pence will help do that. He's also pretty clean, not too much political baggage considering how long he has been in politics.

His political advisers were correct to reccommend Pence over Christie and Gingrich. I think it's pretty obvious Trump wanted someone else, but he listened to his political team and the RNC on this one.

There were better candidates out there for VP, but a lot of them said no. Pence was a solid get. A lot of potential Republican VP candidates probably didn't want to potentially damage their political career by being Trump's runningmate, a person who has really frustrated the GOP brass and leadership.

This post was edited by ThatAlex on Jul 16 2016 11:34am

He already had the republican base and most of the religious fanatics. It was the establishment republicans and donors that didn't like him, so I think the only advantage of having Pence as VP is that his campaign will get more big donor money, which he desperately needs.

But if that happens, Clinton can just call him a hypocrite for accepting big money when his main selling point is that he isn't controlled by the corporations. He's backed himself into a corner and I think he made a bad move.

Why not go for a liberal republican? The only way he can win is to get some liberal voters on his side, including the blacks and the hispanics. All the Trump supporters are in too deep and hate Clinton so much there is virtually nothing Trump could do to dissuade them from voting for him.

Just my opinion of course...

compared to other republicans trump isn't really doing that bad with Hispanics in many areas

How many presidential elections did Romney win again?