Mike Pence Declines to Endorse John McCain and Kelly Ayotte

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Source: ABC News

Siding with his running mate, Mike Pence on Thursday declined to endorse John McCain and Kelly Ayotte in their upcoming reelection bids.

"I look forward to supporting Republican candidates in the days and weeks ahead all over the country, and so does Donald Trump," McCain told traveling press aboard his plane when asked point blank if he would endorse McCain and Ayotte.

"To restore our country at home and abroad, we need new leadership, and I'm looking forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump to drive that new leadership forward," he added.

The Indiana governor's non-endorsement quickly got some blowback. John Weaver, a former McCain aide (who more recently ran John Kasich's campaign), tweeted that McCain campaigned for Pence when he was “desperate.”




Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mike-pence-declines-endorse-john-mccain-kelly-ayotte/story?id=41127389

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Feel the unity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BeyondGeography]

1. What a glorious mess

Lovely, really.

[emulatorloo]

2. "I look forward to standing lips to ass with Donald Trump"

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3. And doing his laundry, and picking up his McDonalds, nt

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7. Christie: 'Fuck you Pense, that's my job!'

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8. Christie is the former errand boy nt

[emulatorloo]

11. Now that makes me sad! He was so qualified!

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13. He just sat there, not saying anything. Maybe he wasn't allowed to nt

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4. His Daddy musta told him, "NO!"

[ailsagirl]

5. This is a charade!!

Precise definition (with ironic example):

an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance.

"talk of unity was nothing more than a charade"

[oberliner]

6. Trump said Pence had to get permission from him to endorse Paul Ryan

Probably same deal with McCain and Ayotte, and he said no for those two.

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10. I think Trump wants to be Caligula. nt

[Midnight Writer]

23. Exactly. "Alpha Male" Trump is displaying his dominance; Pence is adopting a submissive pose

[NurseJackie]

9. I guess he's too busy scrubbing skidmarks from Trump's briefs to think of anything else.

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12. Where's Pence's top hat and monocle?

[keithbvadu2]

14. Pence is playing both sides and only kissing one of Trump's butt cheeks.

He agrees with Trump on these two and kisses up to Paul Ryan's other butt cheek for future good will.

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15. He got daddy's permission to play with his friend Paul, but he's not allowed

to play with his friends John and Kelly.

[keithbvadu2]

16. An independent thinker/operator, eh? With permission of course.

Sounds like the same scenario they put forth for the Gold Star mother.

[George II]

17. Trump just HAS to be paying him tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to be his running mate...

...so far he's passed up a chance for re-election to Governor this year. He's burning ALL bridges with the republican party, AND he has to know he has less than zero chance of being elected Vice President.

And those clowns are running around saying Clinton has "poor judgement"?

[LiberalFighter]

18. Pence is not that intelligent to understand what is happening.

He lives in his own world.

[BlueStater]

19. "I'm looking forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump..."

Does John McCain have ANY dignity left at this point in his career and life?

Just get the fuck out, old man. Get the fuck out and go home.

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20. "Does John McCain have any dignity left?"

[jpak]

21. Pence The Uniter errr Lapdog - feel the love

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22. ...

[Doodley]

28. Hilarious!

[olddad56]

24. after McCain came to Indiana and campaigned for that asshole and contributed to the...

the dirtbag getting elected. I'm not a fan of McCain, just find it interesting to see how cutthroat and fractured the GOP has become since the Koch Bros acquired that entity. They wouldn't have even had Trump as the nominee, if the Tea Party hadn't screwed the GOP up.

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25. They've been this way since Nixon.

This is the politics of white male resentment bearing fruit.

[Eugene]

26. New headline at ABC link: Mike Pence Endorses John McCain and Kelly Ayotte

Source: ABC News

Mike Pence Endorses John McCain and Kelly Ayotte

By ALANA ABRAMSON and INES DELACUETARA - Aug 4, 2016, 7:27 PM ET

After beginning the day by siding with his running mate and declining to explicitly endorse Sens. John McCain and Kelly Ayotte, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence subsequently reversed course, with an aide confirming he would in fact offer his support for them.

Pence will be supporting every sitting Republican candidate, including Ayotte and McCain.

Earlier in the day, Pence avoided a direct response when asked if he would diverge from Trump and support the two senators in their reelection campaigns. "I look forward to supporting Republican candidates in the days and weeks ahead all over the country, and so does Donald Trump," he told traveling press aboard his plane.

"To restore our country at home and abroad, we need new leadership, and I'm looking forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump to drive that new leadership forward," he added.

The Indiana governor's non-endorsement quickly got some blowback. John Weaver, a former McCain aide (who more recently ran John Kasich's campaign), tweeted that McCain campaigned for Pence when he was “desperate.”

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mike-pence-declines-endorse-john-mccain-kelly-ayotte/story?id=41127389

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27. Apparently he got permission nt