Roger Stone shared what Nixon told him regarding VP picks. To paraphrase, he believed if you pick a VP who doesn’t hurt your chances of election, then you’ve achieved the most important objective. He believed VP’s rarely help a ticket but can often hurt it. So a guy like Pence, perhaps uninspiring, may be all that’s warranted. Trump is going to get elected based on Trump. He doesn’t need a super star for VP, just someone solid enough to not hurt the ticket.
It’ll be hard for the NeverTrumpers not to support Trump if he picks Pence. They love him. He’s conservative and an Evangelical. He also served 13 years in Congress where he was on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Pence served for a time as the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative House Republicans.
His Committee assignments in the U.S. House included: Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia (Vice Chair); Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution (Vice Chair), and Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet. While in Congress he belonged to the Congressional Internet Caucus, International Conservation Caucus, Sportsmen’s Caucus, and the Tea Party Caucus.
He’s also despised by democrats because he’s pro-life big time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/us/indiana-governor-mike-pence-signs-abortion-bill.html?_r=0