PeachPod Emergency Podcast: Trump gives the nod to Pence for Vice President
Peachpod: A Georgia Politics Podcast
English - July 16, 2016 19:07 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MB - ★★★★ - 35 ratingsNews georgia politics policy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Luke discusses Trump's selection of Mike Pence as his running mate, including Pence's record as an Indiana Governor and what made Trump pick Pence over Newt Gingrich and Chris Christie
Check out this week's bonus episode, an emergency pod that Luke did on Trump's selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence to be his new running mate. He provides a good overview of why Pence was selected over former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, and the current governor of New Jersey and an early Trump backer, Chris Christie. Luke also covers Pence's time in congress and his record as Indiana's governor.
If you want to know more about Pence, you can check out this article from Politico. And if you missed Mike Pence's review of the 90s classic movie, Titanic, you can find that and other Pence op-eds from Buzzfeed.
Here's that Quinnipiac poll that Luke mentioned how the swing state poll fits into the trend lines in a state like Ohio or Florida.
Lastly, here's some of the feedback on Twitter to the new Trump-Pence logo (He's since changed it):
As Luke noted, it's a little suggestive:
or something@JuddLegum pic.twitter.com/0AJJDFqiSp
— darth™ (@darth) July 15, 2016
Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore