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Political Fix

US election countdown: Trump eyes his running mate

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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How will Donald Trump and his expected running mate Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, reconcile their differences on immigration, abortion and trade on the campaign trail? What to expect from the Republican convention next week? The FT's Demetri Sevastopulo and Neil Munshi discuss this and more.

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0:27.5

investing capital is at risk. Welcome to the FT's U.S. election countdown

0:38.8

podcast. I'm Dimitri Sevestopulo, Washington Bureau Chief.

0:42.0

And I'm Neil Munchee in New York. So Dimitri we had a pretty busy week on the campaign with the aftermath of the Dallas shootings and the lead up to next week's Republican Convention.

0:55.7

But big news right now are reports that Indiana Governor Mike Pence may have been chosen

1:02.0

by Donald Trump as his running mate and you were just in Indiana for a rally in which it seemed like a bit of a tryout for Governor Pence.

1:10.0

It was so Trump has basically been looking at a few people in the final hurdle before he

1:16.2

announces his VP. He's been looking at Mike Pence, who's the Indiana governor, who's a socially

1:21.4

conservative politician. He's been looking at

1:24.3

Newt Gingrich, who's the former Republican speaker of the House, who's more of a

1:29.4

kind of a heavyweight in Washington, but somewhat unpredictable unpredictable and he's been looking at

1:33.2

Chris Christie the New Jersey governor who's an abrasive former prosecutor and was

1:38.2

one of the 16 rivals to Trump in the Republican primary. Now Pence had his try out on Tuesday night in Westfield, Indiana.

1:45.2

He's a former radio talk show host and he used some of those skills that night. He kind of jeed

1:50.1

up the crowd and showed a little bit more charisma than he's known for. He lauded

1:56.4

Donald Trump very heavily. He criticized Hillary Clinton, attacked her quite badly,

2:02.0

you have the kind of

2:02.8

performed the kind of role that he will have if he's the VP

2:05.9

during the four months of the campaign.

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