I’m not a big fan of Pence, but I’d say there’s almost no chance Trump would have won in 2016 without him on the ballot.
Pence was to Trump as GHW Bush was to Reagan
“ there’s almost no chance Trump would have won in 2016 without him on the ballot.”
That is probably true. Pence was a forced error, like a number of his other appointments.
Nonsense, Trump would have done just fine without Pence, an unknown outside of the midwest. Nobody held their nose and voted for Trump because bland uncharismatic nondescript Pence would be the VP. The only characteristic Trump’s running mate needed was to be in the young side. Any Republican running mate would have worked, Trump was the star, the VP nothing but an afterthought. Pence is no Sarah Palin, who almost carried McCain over the finish line. Further, during the campaign of 2016, Pence showed himself to be quite treacherous. A lot of us wished at the time that he could be removed. Time has certainly proved us right!
“I’m not a big fan of Pence, but I’d say there’s almost no chance Trump would have won in 2016 without him on the ballot”
How ridiculous. Are you saying there was no other qualified and admired human being out there that Trump could have chosen for a running mate other than Pence? That’s ludicrous.