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Pence breaks with Trump on Obama’s birth

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 file photo, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence announces that the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has approved the state's waiver request for the plan his administration calls HIP 2.0, during a speech in Indianapolis. Pence said Wednesday that he regrets the "confusion" caused by a memo about a planned state-run news website and will scrap the project if it doesn't "respect the role of a free and independent press." (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

 

The Republican Party’s presidential ticket has at least one voice of reason, and it’s not the man at the top of the ticket.

No. The reasonable, sane voice comes from the vice presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who has broken with presidential nominee Donald Trump on the most outrageous element of his campaign for the White House: that Barack Obama was born somewhere other than Hawaii, one of the nation’s 50 states.

Pence said he accepts that President Obama is duly qualified to hold his office, that he isn’t a foreign-born imposter that Trump has alleged for longer than Obama has been president.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/pence-trump-obama-birther-comments-2278404

So, there you have it. Pence is on board. Will his running mate — the goofball reality TV celebrity/real estate mogul/politician buy in?

I don’t really care. Trump’s assertion of President Obama constitutional illegitimacy is laughable on its face.