Mike Pence Has First Run-In With Protesters in Lima, Ohio

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NBC News

Mike Pence Has First Run-In With Protesters in Lima, Ohio
Jul 30 2016, 12:58 am ET
by Vaughn Hillyard

LIMA, Ohio — One hundred days removed from the presidential election, Mike Pence took a Friday evening flight into an Ohio town of less than 40,000.

Donald Trump's running mate drove 45 minutes from the nearest airport into Allen County to visit the state's 30th most-populated city — a solidly Republican area in northwestern Ohio where Mitt Romney beat Obama nearly two votes to one in 2012.

"My friends in Ohio, from this Hoosier to you Buckeyes, I'm going to tell you that when Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of American the change will be - huge," Pence told the crowd of several hundred supporters inside the student events center at the University of Northwest Ohio, emphasizing the word huge to mimic his running mate.

Prior to the Ohio stop, Pence made solo stops in Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana in the last 48 hours with solid, responsive turnouts. Like Lima, his stops into Kent County, Michigan, on Thursday night and Waukesha County, Wisconsin, on Wednesday were centered in very favorable territory for conservatives, where voter turnout among already-registered Republicans could be key to the duo pulling off several key swing states in the region.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/mike-pence-has-first-run-protesters-lima-ohio-n620116

[spiderpig]

1. Wasn't Lima home to Ohio's main criminal mental facility?

Just sayin'.

[safeinOhio]

2. Lima is pretty Blue

The rest of the county not so much.

[LeftyMom]

3. My kid has grandparents in Bluffton. I scanned that crowd with dread.

[landolfi]

4. It's close to Fort Wayne

Indiana, my hometown, which is reliably red but has some blue stripes. I am so glad I moved away after college. What an embarrassment Indiana under Pence has become.

[LittleGirl]

6. I think

most thinking people that I grew up with left Indiana as well. Only a few holdouts that had decent jobs and families stayed behind. I have a trip planned there in a couple of weeks to visit my aging mother and I'm not really looking forward to it except to see her. She is a liberal like me and some of my friends are too. It should be interesting to hear the political discussions. I will probably have to bite my tongue. I know my brother has a friend that is a rabid Obama hater so there's that.

Welcome to DU

[Ilsa]

5. "Lima trumps hate!" two protesters chanted midway through his remarks." nt

[turbinetree]

7. So he got away from this ALEC event to make a stop at this event...................

what a right wing hypocrite--------------------no wonder Indiana is in trouble


http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/28/mike-pence-set-strengthen-ties-alec-and-corporate-driven-education-reform/211995


He is just a puppet, a very dangerous puppet, just like the treasonous fascists that leads this team



Honk-----------------------for a political revolution

[unitedwethrive]

8. I can't imagine a more boring way to spend an afternoon

than to hear Mike Pence speak.

[Equinox Moon]

9. 95% of this room are white men!

[alterfurz]

10. In Waukesha Co., where Cruz beat Trump 65-35...

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...Pence drew barely 500, at a rally hosted by both Gov. Walker and Speaker Ryan. That does not bode well for Don the Con.