Pence Will Not Help Trump's Chances

by Dan Friedman
JULY 15, 2016, 6:51 PM EDT

... Pence is stridently pro-life. He has said he longed “for the day that Roe v. Wade is sent to the ash heap of history,” and that he was willing to shut down the government to defund Planned Parenthood.

Pence is also out of step with Trump and a growing contingent of Republicans who support same sex marriage. In 2015, Pence stumbled into a national controversy when he signed a bill that allowed businesses to ignore local nondiscrimination laws and to deny services to people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. That is the kind of battle business-friendly Republicans strive to avoid ...

But any points those stances may win Pence with business groups and Wall Street will be offset by his status as not only an opponent but lead spokesman against the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or the bailout, in 2008. While that stance was and remains an easy sell to populist voters, it remains a bitter memory for many fiscally conservative voters who felt opponents of the Bush administration-backed bailout endangered the economy.

The Republican-leaning U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which aggressively advocated for the bailout bill, did not mention Pence’s position in a tepid statement on Friday ...

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