According to The Washington Times, Trump has added a campaign rally on Tuesday in Indiana to a planned fundraiser, and the Indiana elite are starting to jockey for position in the wake of Pence’s expected resignation.
Constitutional lawyer James Bopp, an Indiana delegate to the Republican National Convention who is close the governor, told The Washington Times that Indiana House Speaker Brian C. Bosma, 58, a conservative Republican, had sought advice from him on running for governor.
“He wanted my counsel on what he needed to do to set himself up to run for governor, because he expects Pence to step down as governor in order to be Trump’s running mate,” Mr. Bopp said in an interview.
The Trump election team boosted the Pence speculation Sunday by suddenly adding a campaign rally in Indianapolis to a fundraiser planned for Tuesday featuring Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence.
Of course, 95% for Trump could mean anything since he changes his mind so often, but the only people with influence on him (his kids) seem to have vetoed Gringrich.
According to campaign insiders, Mr. Trump genuinely likes Mr. Gingrich but some in the Trump family, especially his adult children, aren’t great Gingrich fans.
According to Kerry Eleved’s diary from last week Indiana Republicans cross fingers, toes that Trump snatches up Pence for VP this is good news for the state of Indian and likely Pence’s only shot at a national role.
PoliticsUSA is calling this selection one that could have been cast by Hillary Clinton and that
The reality is that the kind of Republican who could have helped Trump wouldn’t be caught dead on his ticket, so the GOP nominee was forced to pick a running mate that could have been cast by Hillary Clinton herself. Pence is a red state governor with an extremist political history who does nothing to help Trump nationally, or with any key voting constituencies.
Pass the popcorn.