Pence to make campaign push amid GOP concerns over Trump
Source: Politico
Increased political activity also stokes speculation that the vice president is positioning himself for post-Trump era.
By ALEX ISENSTADT 05/30/2017 05:05 AM EDT
Vice President Mike Pence is embarking on a cross-country summer campaign tour amid rising fears that the GOP, reeling from a barrage of Trump-fueled controversies, is headed for a midterm election disaster.
Pence is mapping out a schedule that will take him through several Midwestern battlegrounds and to traditionally conservative Southern states like Georgia, where an unexpectedly competitive June special-election runoff is alarming party strategists. The vice president will also attend a series of Republican Party events that will draw major donors and power brokers, where talk about 2018 is certain to be front and center.
The push comes at a time of growing consternation among senior Republicans who say the White House has given them little direction on midterm planning. Many complain that they do not even know who to contact about 2018 in an administration that has been consumed by chaos.
“He has an appetite to fight, so he's going to get out there and fight on the president's behalf,” said Nick Ayers, a longtime Pence strategist.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/30/mike-pence-campaign-push-trump-gop-238921
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Rancid, their former RNC head, is right there as Chief of Staff. Have they tried him? 
Are you ready...for a crackpot former talk-show host, failed, widely reviled one-term governor, and notorious extremist religious kook?
Do you want such a person to lead the nation? Do you want a right-wing (fake) Xtian theocracy? Because that's what he'd try to bring about.
Just pointing out the relevant facts re dense because we here know what's coming: the corporate media will try to paint him as a reasonable, sane alternative to dump. They will portray him as a non-scary religious conservative (as if there is such a thing) so as not to frighten and turn off the public with his "Mother" fixation and other kooky aspects.
He has no relevant background in world affairs or credible foreign policy experience. He wants the same cruel domestic policies as lyin' ryan and the rest of the kochsuckers. Hell, he IS a kochsucker.
Don't fall for it, America.
