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Did you miss Donald Trump’s speech “announcing” Mike Pence as his running mate? No worries. The Twitter version is always more fun anyway:
“Can’t Always Get Want You Want” playing on the loudspeakers prior to Trump press conference introducing Pence as his running mate.
— Brian X. McCrone (@BrianXMcCrone)
“My first choice.” Has a presidential candidate ever had to make that assurance about his running mate before?
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry)
#BREAKING Donald Trumps says of attempted coup in Turkey, “Hopefully it will all work out” pic.twitter.com/QmVDEBWeuo
— CNN Türk ENG (@CNNTURK_ENG)
“So, Mike Pence… “
— Robert Costa (@costareports)
“One of the reasons i did this was party unity, to be honest.” A heartfelt endorsement of Mike Pence.
— adam nagourney (@adamnagourney)
So saying he chose Pence for party unity was a segue into a riff on how Trump crushed the Republican establishment in the primaries
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein)
Trump: “Nafta worst trade deal in history of US”
Pence to himself (Gulp, i supported that.)
“Iraq war a disaster”
(Gulp)— James Fallows (@JamesFallows)
This is epic. I’ve never seen a veep roll-out quite like this. Are we sure Pence is still waiting?
— adam nagourney (@adamnagourney)
“Back to Mike Pence” — Followed by absolutely nothing about Pence.
— Jonathan Bernstein (@jbview)
Still not back to Mike Pence…
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty)
It’s easy to tell when Trump is going to start talking about Pence: He looks down at his prepared remarks.
— adam nagourney (@adamnagourney)
Donald Trump just said he picked Mike Pence because he’s good looking.
And that’s the least weird part of this speech.
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser)
This feels like Trump is reading Pence’s Wikipedia page for the first time.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein)
Now we know the answer to the question, can Trump give a speech on any subject other than himself?
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC)
“It was more of an endorsement for me” Trump says of Pence’s endorsement of Cruz.
Phenomenal.
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher)
Trump quickly left the stage, Pence alone at the lectern
— Robert Costa (@costareports)
Trump leaving stage seemed to be symbolic washing of hands of the whole thing
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry)
What is Mike Pence thinking right now? Because it is not, “this is exactly how I always imagined this moment would go”
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein)
UPDATE: Here’s the whole thing in all its glory:
See original article here:
