{"id":15951,"date":"2016-07-16T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T13:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15951"},"modified":"2016-07-16T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T13:48:59","slug":"pence-announcement-not-by-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15951","title":{"rendered":"Pence announcement: not by the book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mike-pence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15656\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mike-pence-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"mike-pence\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mike-pence-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mike-pence.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump continues to toss aside political tradition as he awaits his nomination as the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>His selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to run with him as the VP nominee offers a glowing example of an unconventional selection process.<\/p>\n<p>Trump went to Indiana to visit with Pence and his family.<\/p>\n<p>He then apparently decided to select Pence.<\/p>\n<p>He flew Pence to New York on his private plane to make an announcement, which was to\u00a0occur Friday morning at 11 at Trump Tower.<\/p>\n<p>Trump then &#8220;postponed&#8221; the announcement &#8212;\u00a0during which\u00a0he would &#8220;introduce&#8221; Pence to the political world &#8212; in the wake of the horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France. He would make that announcement the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Then, at 11 a.m. Friday, Trump sent out a tweet announcing that &#8212; yep! &#8212; Pence is his guy. The tweet, therefore,\u00a0did precisely\u00a0what Trump said he was postponing out of deference to the horror in France.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and then it was reported that he didn&#8217;t inform New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich &#8212; the two other finalists &#8212; that he had\u00a0decided on\u00a0Pence. Christie and Newt, thus, were left &#8212; to borrow a phrase &#8212; to twist in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>It also has been reported that Trump wavered a bit once the word leaked that Pence would get the call, but that Trump didn&#8217;t want to upset members of his family who apparently talked him into selecting Pence.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready, Republicans. You wanted <em>unconventional<\/em> when most of you voted for this guy.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump continues to toss aside political tradition as he awaits his nomination as the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential candidate. His selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to run with him as the VP nominee offers a glowing example of an unconventional selection process. Trump went to Indiana to visit with Pence and his family. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pence announcement: not by the book<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[965,1424,1941,5647,3067,3299],"class_list":["post-15951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-chris-christie","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-gop-convention","tag-mike-pence","tag-newt-gingrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15953,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951\/revisions\/15953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}