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 Washington Examiner: A campaign autopsy by former President Donald Trump's chief pollster showed then-Vice President Mike Pence held an advantage over current Vice President Kamala Harris with swing-state voters, as well as over Trump and now-President Biden. In a 27-page report, pollster Tony Fabrizio analyzed exit polls from 10 key battleground states that Trump won in 2016 and split in 2020. Trump and Pence held only five of the 10 states they won in 2016, despite Harris and Biden each garnering favorability ratings below zero in the two groups. Pence scored a net positive rating with both groups. Five of the states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — flipped to Biden after going for Trump in 2016. Another five — Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas — went for Trump in 2016 and 2020. ... Fabrizio, who used exit poll data from the National Election Pool and  Associated Press , also found that while Trump's favorability fell below zero in th...

  Washington Examiner: Ahead of impeachment bid, Democrats pass resolution pressuring Pence to remove Trump It does not work. Epoch Times:   Pence Refuses to Invoke the 25th Amendment The impeachment effort is based on a failed premise that will be exposed if they go forward with it.  As noted in a previous post the timeline and the actual words spoken by the President do not support the charges alleged by Pelosi et al.  Eventually, the country should recognize that Pelosi is no "profile in courage" in this fiasco.  She has demonstrated no grace under pressure.  Instead, she has demonstrated a hysterical reaction to tragic events.

  Washington Examiner: Public believes Pence more prepared to be president than Harris, Washington Examiner/YouGov poll finds When Harris did not recognize that reversing Trump's tax cuts would lead to an increase in middle-income taxes, it showed a lack of self-awareness and intelligence.  ...   A  Washington Examiner /YouGov poll found that the public trusts in Pence’s preparation by a 20-point margin, with 56% saying he is well prepared to become president compared to 36% who believe he is not well prepared. ... That is a landslide difference and when you add Biden's age factor to the equation it should make it hard for that ticket to win.     

 Red States: Feedback from a focus group that viewed Wednesday’s vice-presidential debate revealed that no amount of accusations of mansplaining or fixation on flying insects could hide the reality that Sen. Kamala Harris made a particularly poor showing. Participants in the group found Harris to be “abrasive and condescending” at different points during the debate while they viewed Vice President Mike Pence more favorably.  Pollster Frank Luntz monitored the group of 15 voters. “The complaint about Kamala Harris was that she was abrasive and condescending,” he explained in an appearance on  Fox News . The group consisted of voters from eight battleground states.  When it came to rating Pence, participants were a little more complimentary.  “The complaint about Mike Pence was that he was too tired, but [he was] vice-presidential, or presidential,” Luntz pointed out. He then suggested that “if this is a battle over style and substance — which is often the case wi...

Washington Examiner: Vice President Mike Pence told a gathering of Philadelphia police officers that Joe Biden views them as the “enemy,” warning the presumptive Democratic nominee would gut funding for local law enforcement and jeopardize public safety. Pence delivered the aggressive speech to an indoor gathering of approximately 300 police officers and family members at a Fraternal Order of Police lodge in Philadelphia at the tail end of a bus tour campaign swing through Pennsylvania on Thursday. President Trump  trails Biden in this critical swing state  in public opinion polls, and Pence presented the choice before voters in November as one between order and chaos. “Minneapolis, as reported, has begun dismantling their police department. New York City’s mayor, [Bill] de Blasio, has actually cut the NYPD’s budget by about $1 billion,” Pence said. “And, I heard that just yesterday, Joe Biden said that well-armed police, in his words, ‘become the enemy.' And he said ...

Washington Post: Trump involved Pence in attempts to pressure Ukraine’s leader, officials say Officials close to Vice President Pence insist he was unaware of President Trump’s efforts to press the Ukrainian president for damaging information about the Bidens. They want to overthrow the entire government to seize control and push their radical agenda that was rejected by the voters.  In some ways, they hate Pence more than they hate Trump.

streiff: Karen Pence Is Under Attack For Her Part-Time Job At A Christian School Not reinterpreting the Bible to fit the goals of liberals is apparently seen as sinful by the left.

Washington Times: Vice President Mike Pence says he has “never” been part of a conversation about invoking the 25th Amendment to potentially remove President Trump from office — a subject mentioned in a recent op-ed by an anonymous administration official. “No. Never. And why would we be?” Mr. Pence said in an interview for CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “I mean the truth of the matter is over the last eight years, despite what we heard from President Obama on Friday, I mean this country was struggling,” he said. “I mean, it was the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression because having inherited a recession, President Obama’s answer was to raise taxes, to double the national debt, to increase regulation, to pass Obamacare into law, to stifle American energy.” The opinion piece by a “senior official” in the Trump administration, published last week by the New York Times, said there were “early whispers” within the Cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows a ma...

Red States: ... Pence famously pretended during the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony that Kim wasn’t even there as leaders sat down around each other. The move was lauded by many as the right thing to do, and lambasted by others as an undiplomatic move. Pence clarified his actions during a round of Q&A with Axios co-founder Mike Allen, Pence said he “didn’t avoid the dictator’s sister, but I did ignore her.” The reason he did so is to send the message that America knows who they’re dealing with. ... Indeed, the North Korean regime is responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed upon mankind in the modern era. Disease, parasites, and starvation run rampant . In fact, the starvation is so horrible that the military has been ordered by the government to take food from regular citizens , and even the nuclear tests currently conducted in agitation of the U.S. has nuclear fallout currently harming its citizens . I could go on with examples of labor camps filled with und...

Eric Wemple, Washington Post: Why is Pence so bothered by the New York Times’s reporting? I can think of two reasons off the top of my head. 1. The reporting is misleading and is not a true reflection of his intent for the 2020 race. 2.  The reporting appears to be an attempt to drive a wedge between the President and the Vice President. Which raises the question of why Wemple is being so obtuse about the matter.

Washington Post: Vice President Pence has a growing credibility problem This post has been updated with a comment from the vice president's office. There are more than a few people who look at Vice President Pence and see President Pence - possibly sooner than later. The coup attempt looks like it is targeting the entire administration at this point.

Fox News: President-elect Donald Trump took to social media this weekend to demand an apology from the cast of “Hamilton” after star Brandon Victor Dixon read a statement from the stage about the recent election to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who was in attendance. Dixon said Monday morning he had "nothing to apologize for," but now he may be saying sorry for something entirely different, namely some tweets (and retweets) he made years ago, before “Hamilton” (and President-elect Donald Trump, for that matter) were even a thing. In one, Dixon wrote this:   Brandon Victor Dixon   ✔ @BrandonVDixon St. Patty's day weekend is like Christmas for black dudes who like white chicks. Happy holidays boys.  @ reesewaters # seasonsgreetings 11:08 AM - 17 Mar 2012     727 727 Retweets     291 291 likes and this: J Lee   @jleefilm For every racist comment I get about Trayvon, I'm going to turn one (1) white ma...

Guy Benson: According to a focus group put together by longtime pollster Frank Luntz, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence overwhelmingly won the debate against rival Democrat Tim Kaine in Farmville, Virginia Tuesday night. ... The link is loaded with graphs and tweets that reflect the response of the group. What I noticed is that Kaine appeared to be prepared to debate Trump and not Pence.  He was clearly instructed to make the debate about Trump's perceived gaffes and wanted to get Pence on the defensive about them, and Pence, unlike Trump did not take the bait.  He kept going back to the issues and he articulated the campaigns position much better than Trump has. Pence explanation of the campaign's position on immigration was brilliant and it clearly frustrated Kaine who wanted to talk about a "deportation force."  Where Kaine wanted Pence to talk about Trump's insults of others, Pence just ignored him for the post part and...

Washington Examiner: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump's running mate, has gone from "who?" to the most favored choice of voters in his vice presidential race with Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Rodham Clinton's No. 2. A new Gallup pol l finds that Pence outpaces Kaine on the favorability rating, 36 percent to 33 percent. And more Republicans like Pence than Democrats like Kaine, the sign of a good pick by Trump. Rasmussen Reports, meanwhile, found that more voters would pick Pence over Kaine if Trump and Clinton got out of the race. Pence won 41 percent to 35 percent. ... Heck, I would pick him over either candidate at the top of the ticket too.  He is smarter than any of the other three and is more honest.

NY Times: Graphic:  Pence Ranks Low in Approval, but Not as Low as Trump and Clinton Governor Mike Pence of Indiana, who Donald J. Trump announced as his running mate on Friday, has a relatively low approval rating among governors.   Democrats will be trying to change that dynamic with an "extremist" approach to  negative campaigning.  They are already falling back on their old canard of calling any GOP candidate an "extremist."  It is a weird sales pitch  when they ignored the extremist policies of both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

Fox News: Donald Trump's tweet announcing his running mate was not even moments old when the Democrats' knives came out to attack Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as "extreme" and "divisive" -- and unload their opposition research. Almost immediately after Trump named Pence, Hillary Clinton’s campaign blasted out an email Friday calling him “the most extreme VP pick in a generation.” Clinton’s campaign outlined its talking points against the governor, pointing specifically to his record on LGBT and abortion rights, as well as his free-market economic policies. ... The Democrats' definition of extremism is anyone who does not embrace their far left agenda.