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| Donald Trump 'to pick Mike Pence as running mate' – politics live | Donald Trump 'to pick Mike Pence as running mate' – politics live |
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| The former chairman of the agency that controls New York City-area airports conspired with a United Airlines lobbyist to get the airline to run direct flights to South Carolina so that the executive could more easily visit his vacation home, prosecutors said on Thursday. | |
| David Samson – a political mentor to New Jersey’s governor, Chris Christie – pleaded guilty to a corruption charge that he wrongfully used his Port Authority of New York and New Jersey post. | |
| The ex-lobbyist, Jamie Fox, was charged with conspiracy to commit bribery. The Democrat went on to become Christie’s transportation commissioner after ending his lobbying work for United. | |
| Samson and Fox “both should have known better. They both did know better,” US attorney Paul Fishman said. “It was an unacceptable abuse of public authority.” | |
| Fishman also announced that United would pay a $2.25m fine for the role its officials played in the scheme. | |
| Related: Former Chris Christie mentor pleads guilty to corruption charge | |
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| More on Donald Trump’s selection of Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate: | |
| The decision seems to represent an attempt to unite the Republican party and bring political experience to the businessman’s campaign. | |
| Trump has spent much of the last week in Indiana, grounded by an aircraft malfunction to his private jet, and whiled away the days by holding de facto auditions with three contenders: Pence, New Jersey governor Chris Christie and former House speaker Newt Gingrich. | |
| The three who spoke with Trump in the last week gave speeches that doubled as dress rehearsals for the campaign trial, and Pence also met with Trump’s adult children Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr, who have assumed leading roles in their father’s campaign. | |
| Pence would bring several qualities to the Trump campaign that Republicans have found lacking, not least of which experience in government. The 57-year-old spent 12 years in Congress, including two years in a leadership role with the House Republican Conference. He was elected governor of Indiana in 2012, and gained a degree of national notoriety thanks to a controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which he signed into law and then wanted revised, after many argued it would allow discrimination against LGBT people. | |
| A Trump-Pence ticket could send a message to Republican dissenters who feel they cannot support a candidate who has proven inconsistent on guns, abortion,LGBT rights and other social conservative issues. Just before the Indiana primary election, the staunchly conservative governor endorsed Ted Cruz, Trump’s leading opponent and a far-right senator from Texas. | |
| Pence does not come without baggage to a general election, however, where tens of millions more people vote than in the primaries. He is not very popular in his home state, nor well known outside it, and though his conservative bona fides will help unite the party they may push away important swing voters, particularly suburban women. | |
| Related: Donald Trump 'to announce Mike Pence as vice-presidential running mate' | |
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| CNN report: Donald Trump has offered Mike Pence running-mate spot | |
| According to multiple CNN reporters, the network has confirmed that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has called Indiana governor Mike Pence and officially offered him the vice-presidential slot on the ticket. | |
| ☎🚨️ Donald Trump has called IN Gov. Mike Pence and offered him the vice-presidential slot on his ticket, CNN has learned. Pence has accepted | |
| JUST IN: Donald Trump has called Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and offered him the vice-presidential slot on his ticket. Pence has accepted. | |
| Trump has called Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and offered him the vice-presidential slot on his ticket, CNN has learned. Gov. Pence has accepted. | |
| Pence has reportedly accepted the offer. | |
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| New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s pointed criticism of Indiana governor Mike Pence on MSNBC comes as Donald Trump’s self-imposed deadline to declare a running mate has come and gone: | New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s pointed criticism of Indiana governor Mike Pence on MSNBC comes as Donald Trump’s self-imposed deadline to declare a running mate has come and gone: |
| You’d have to ask him why he endorsed Ted Cruz at the time that he did. I don’t know. | You’d have to ask him why he endorsed Ted Cruz at the time that he did. I don’t know. |
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| When asked about her campaign’s efforts to register voters at Pokemon Go Pokestops - geotagged locations where players can get supplies like Pokeballs - the Clinton campaign told Buzzfeed that “we expect our organizers will use whatever tools they can” to register voters: | When asked about her campaign’s efforts to register voters at Pokemon Go Pokestops - geotagged locations where players can get supplies like Pokeballs - the Clinton campaign told Buzzfeed that “we expect our organizers will use whatever tools they can” to register voters: |
| Our volunteers and staffers across the country are taking the campaign into their own hands and reaching out to voters wherever they are. After the launch of Pokemon Go last Thursday, our organizers innovated and used the app to find other players to register them to vote and continue to do so. Whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Pokemon Go or whatever comes next, we expect our organizers will use whatever tools they can to register and commit voters to support Hillary Clinton. | Our volunteers and staffers across the country are taking the campaign into their own hands and reaching out to voters wherever they are. After the launch of Pokemon Go last Thursday, our organizers innovated and used the app to find other players to register them to vote and continue to do so. Whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Pokemon Go or whatever comes next, we expect our organizers will use whatever tools they can to register and commit voters to support Hillary Clinton. |
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| Donald Trump’s campaign - responding to Hillary Clinton’s declaration that she wished there were a Pokemon Go-themed app to get people to vote - has crafted a Facebook video comparing Clinton to one of the pocket monsters that has to be captured in the game: | Donald Trump’s campaign - responding to Hillary Clinton’s declaration that she wished there were a Pokemon Go-themed app to get people to vote - has crafted a Facebook video comparing Clinton to one of the pocket monsters that has to be captured in the game: |
| “CROOKED HILLARY NO!” Trump posted. | “CROOKED HILLARY NO!” Trump posted. |
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| Hillary Clinton’s latest advertisement, “Role Models,” makes a stark comparison between the presumptive Democratic candidate and her general election opponent Donald Trump, juxtaposing past offensive and controversial statements with the watching eyes of children: | Hillary Clinton’s latest advertisement, “Role Models,” makes a stark comparison between the presumptive Democratic candidate and her general election opponent Donald Trump, juxtaposing past offensive and controversial statements with the watching eyes of children: |
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| Too many cooks in the kitchen at the Trump campaign: | Too many cooks in the kitchen at the Trump campaign: |
| There's literally none of the drama I'm reading about. 3 great choices. Decision is my fathers alone to make! https://t.co/tWgAxCy4z5 | There's literally none of the drama I'm reading about. 3 great choices. Decision is my fathers alone to make! https://t.co/tWgAxCy4z5 |
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| Mooooooooooom... | Mooooooooooom... |
| Hillary Clinton: "I don't know who created Pokemon Go, but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to do Pokemon Go To The Polls!" | Hillary Clinton: "I don't know who created Pokemon Go, but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to do Pokemon Go To The Polls!" |
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| As reports come in that Donald Trump has not yet officially made his running-mate selection, here’s a breakdown of the current favorability ratings among Trump’s top contenders. | As reports come in that Donald Trump has not yet officially made his running-mate selection, here’s a breakdown of the current favorability ratings among Trump’s top contenders. |
| Important note: Indiana governor Mike Pence is not at all near the top of the rankings... | Important note: Indiana governor Mike Pence is not at all near the top of the rankings... |
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| Conservative commentator and longtime Donald Trump supporter Ann Coulter is not a fan of Trump’s reported selection of Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate, tweeting this afternoon that if the reports are true, the choice is Trump’s “first mistake” as the Republican nominee: | Conservative commentator and longtime Donald Trump supporter Ann Coulter is not a fan of Trump’s reported selection of Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate, tweeting this afternoon that if the reports are true, the choice is Trump’s “first mistake” as the Republican nominee: |
| Withholding comment until it's official, but if claims about Pence as VP are correct, boy was I right about this being Trump's first mistake | Withholding comment until it's official, but if claims about Pence as VP are correct, boy was I right about this being Trump's first mistake |
| In a Facebook post penned shortly after her tweet, Coulter decried Pence as a “combo-platter of disaster” who has “sold out to left-wing activists” on LGBT rights issues: | In a Facebook post penned shortly after her tweet, Coulter decried Pence as a “combo-platter of disaster” who has “sold out to left-wing activists” on LGBT rights issues: |
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| Video: Hillary Clinton criticized Donald Trump in speech at the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Washington this afternoon for what she described as his racism against Latinos. | Video: Hillary Clinton criticized Donald Trump in speech at the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Washington this afternoon for what she described as his racism against Latinos. |
| She reminded attendees of her Republican rival’s many comments: “He said that immigrants from Mexico are drug-dealers, rapists, murderers, carriers of infectious disease.” | She reminded attendees of her Republican rival’s many comments: “He said that immigrants from Mexico are drug-dealers, rapists, murderers, carriers of infectious disease.” |
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| Potential running mate Newt Gingrich’s plan this afternoon: reading potboilers and ignoring his phone. | Potential running mate Newt Gingrich’s plan this afternoon: reading potboilers and ignoring his phone. |
| Very exciting! Daniel Silva's new novel, The Black Widow, just came out. I will hide and start reading this afternoon. Gabriel Allon is back | Very exciting! Daniel Silva's new novel, The Black Widow, just came out. I will hide and start reading this afternoon. Gabriel Allon is back |
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