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" Sen. Mark Kirk made his second appearance in Chicago's gay Pride Parade this year. He broke ranks to support Democrat-backed gun control measures and called his party's presumptive presidential nominee "too bigoted and racist" for the job.
His running mate largely unknown to the public, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is introducing Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a steady conservative with governing experience inside and outside of Washington. Trump and Pence will appear together Saturday morning at a midtown Manhattan hotel, an unofficial kickoff event to the Republican National Convention two days before it opens in Cleveland.
Donald Trump Clinton video mocks Trump's VP indecision Convention puts GOP tech to the test Joint Clinton, DNC group raises M in quarter MORE on Saturday insisted Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was his first choice for a running mate, as reports emerge that he considered changing his VP pick at the last second. Trump called Pence "my first choice from start" in a tweet hyping Saturday's joint press conference with the Indiana governor.
Donald Trump publicly introduces new running mate Mike Pence on Saturday, two days before the start of the Republican National Convention. "Look forward to introducing Governor Mike Pence ," Trump tweeted Saturday.
WATCH LIVE as Donald Trump officially introduces Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate in their first joint appearance at a Manhattan press conference.
Two decades later, Pence is the unflappable conservative governor of Indiana who's being plucked by Republican presidential contender Donald Trump as his running mate. Where Trump is impulsive, Pence is cool-headed.
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Eyes across the country moved to Indiana after Donald Trump picked Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate. Pence is hardly the first Hoosier to run for the country's second highest office.
Presidential nominees choose vice presidential running mates for what they add to the ticket, whether it be experience or the capacity to draw votes. Here's what Mike Pence might subtract from this fall's Republican ticket with Donald Trump: an unknowable amount of campaign cash from the financial services industry.
"More than anything, what people want right now is to be heard," added McMorris Rodgers, chairwoman of the Republican Conference. "And that's why it is so important and fundamental that we restore [the] people's voice in their government and uphold the Constitution.
Two open U.S. House seats highlight the primary election in Michigan, where the Republican winner of a Thumb-area seat will have a clear path to Congress while the victors in the state's expansive northern district will contend in a competitive race in November. The Aug. 2 primary also will set the stage this fall for control of the state House, which Democrats are eager to win after years of GOP rule.
It is heartening to see the Tampa Bay region come together for a cause and win, as happened this month with the announcement that Tampa International Airport will likely host daily commercial flights to Havana as early as this fall. The list of those who should take a bow is long.
Rep. Alan Grayson on The House steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, February 4, 2016. Grayson's highly unusual dual role - a sitting House lawmaker running a hedge fund, which until recently had operations in the Cayman Islands - has led to an investigation by the House Committee on Ethics.
Donald Trump and his running mate will present themselves to America as the Republican team that will take on Hillary Clinton and her Democratic sidekick for the US presidency in November. Billionaire businessman Mr Trump announced Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate on Friday, adding an experienced politician with deep Washington connections to the party presidential ticket.
Gov. Mike Pence showed in his first national interview after being tapped as Donald Trump's running mate that he understands his job. Pence ready to make the case for Trump Gov. Mike Pence showed in his first national interview after being tapped as Donald Trump's running mate that he understands his job.
INDIANAPOLIS The condemnation and congratulations came quickly Friday after Donald Trump told the world he had chosen Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate.
INDIANAPOLIS It was a frenzied 50 minutes Friday morning as Gov. Mike Pence officially abandoned his re-election campaign and three state and federal office holders dropped off the ballot to seek his spot.
Four years ago, when Republicans gathered in Tampa to endorse Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as their party's vice-presidential nominee, it signaled the growing prominence that the debt issue had gained within the party. For decades, Republicans had sounded alarms about runaway spending, while in practice, they avoided doing anything to reform entitlements - the true driver of the nation's long-term debt problem.
A House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee met Thursday to address the alarming issue of international parental child abduction of children born in the United States and taken against their will by one of their own parents to foreign countries. Four parents of abducted children offered testimonies before the subcommittee as many more stood in the back of the room holding posters of their own children who have been abducted.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney along with vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan wave on stage after accepting the nomination during the final day of the Republican National Convention on August 30, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. As delegates, grassroots activists and party insiders converged on Cleveland ahead of next week's Republican National Convention , a last-ditch attempt to throw Donald Trump 's nomination for president into jeopardy fizzled, but the attempted power play was more about a shadow campaign for the 2020 presidential election than anything else, ABC News has learned.