{"id":15988,"date":"2016-07-18T01:27:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T01:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15988"},"modified":"2016-07-18T01:27:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T01:27:21","slug":"gop-ticket-together-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15988","title":{"rendered":"GOP ticket: together for the first time"},"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\/pence-and-trump1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15959\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pence-and-trump1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"pence-and-trump1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pence-and-trump1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pence-and-trump1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pence-and-trump1.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I watched tonight&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview with Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.<\/p>\n<p>I was amazed &#8212; but not surprised &#8212; to hear how the Republican presidential nominee, Trump, often wouldn&#8217;t let his running mate get a word in edgewise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/unaired-60-minutes-clips-with-trump-and-pence\/\">http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/unaired-60-minutes-clips-with-trump-and-pence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The clips here perhaps illustrate my point.<\/p>\n<p>What did surprise me was how ill-prepared Gov. Pence is to answer the questions that cut to, as Stahl said, &#8220;the daylight&#8221; that exists between the candidates on policy matters.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Stahl sought to pin Trump down on the differences the two men have on some key issues. Trade? Trump wouldn&#8217;t let Pence answer. For his part, Pence didn&#8217;t answer the question directly, either.<\/p>\n<p>How about Trump&#8217;s penchant for insult? Pence is much more of a gentlemanly campaigner. He&#8217;s said he opposes negative campaigning, that candidates do better to sell their policies rather than denigrating the opponent.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t answer that question, either.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most awkward evasion came when Stahl asked Pence directly whether he believes &#8212; as Trump said some months ago &#8212; that Sen. John McCain is a &#8220;war hero&#8221; only because he got captured by the enemy during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Trump interrupted: &#8220;McCain is a nice guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pence never answered that one, either.<\/p>\n<p>This, ladies and gents, is a political team that needs work.<\/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>I watched tonight&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview with Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. I was amazed &#8212; but not surprised &#8212; to hear how the Republican presidential nominee, Trump, often wouldn&#8217;t let his running mate get a word in edgewise. http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/unaired-60-minutes-clips-with-trump-and-pence\/ The clips here perhaps illustrate my point. What did surprise me was how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP ticket: together for the first time<\/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":[93,1424,6427,3067],"class_list":["post-15988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-60-minutes","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-running-mates","tag-mike-pence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988","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=15988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15990,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions\/15990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}