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INDIANA GOVERNOR MIKE Pence has denied that he ever considered leaving the Republican presidential ticket following revelations from a leaked 2005 video that showed Donald Trump boasting about forcing himself onto women.
The Republican vice-presidential nominee told CNN that reports he considered leaving the race were “absolutely false,” though he did not answer whether his wife, Karen Pence, was incensed by Trump’s lewd comments.
“It’s the greatest honour of my life to be nominated for vice president by my party. Look, politics is a tough business, I get that,” Pence said.
CNN Politics / TwitterMike Pence: It is “absolutely false to suggest that at any point in time we considered dropping off this ticket” https://t.co/xeoWCPEkY8
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 10, 2016
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The Indiana governor reiterated that he was offended by Trump’s bragging that he could grab women “by the p***y,” and kiss women without permission because he was a celebrity. But the governor said he believed the real-estate magnate delivered a sincere apology over the weekend in multiple forums.
“As I said on Saturday, I couldn’t condone, I couldn’t defend those remarks. I encouraged Donald Trump on Friday to apologise for them. He did. He expressed his personal remorse. But I also encouraged him on Saturday to take that to American people, to show them his heart,” Pence said.
Pence praised Trump for “speaking boldly” during the second presidential debate on Sunday night, and slammed Hillary Clinton over her answer to a question about a private speech to people in the financial industry.
“Hillary Clinton, when she’s confronted with speeches on Wall Street, gave us a one-minute speech on Abraham Lincoln and never answered the questions that were posed,” Pence said.
Pence’s comments come after a weekend in which many high-profile Republicans broke off their support for their party’s presidential nominee in light of the 2005 video.
Rumours also swirled about the Republican National Committee’s involvement in boosting the campaign, and whether key members of Trump’s campaign staff were also considering quitting.
In a tweet this morning, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway mocked media outlets for reporting that Pence was considering dropping out, despite earlier rumors that Conway herself may be considering leaving the ticket.
Kellyanne Conway / TwitterSo, this actually ISN'T #BreakingNews unless you'd convinced yourself rumor, innuendo, conspiracy & the telephone game are news.@mike_pence https://t.co/O6oDG7RBCM
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) October 10, 2016
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Why would he quit? If trump wins Pence will basically be running the show, as one of trumps sons let slip. Then in 4 years time, pence can run on a ‘I’ve been in charge anyway while the donalds been busy grabbing women by the *$£%&” ticket.
It’s cute that he wants to act like this is some sort of shock, just like how he denied all the things Trump has said at the VP debate last week. The reality is, as a politician, you don’t accept a position like VP candidate without doing your homework. There is no way that Mike Pence didn’t know exactly who Donald Trump is when he signed up for this.
Almost as if he has a public and a private position
Hilary Clinton now has a double digit lead over Trump.
@Micheal OLainn: in a nbc poll , wall street journal poll. Ah here.
@LITTLEONE: Apart from blacks, Hispanics, women, liberals and educated whites, Trump is very popular with a narrow demographic.
You mean the same NBC that Trump worked for and who’s head has threatened to sack and sue anyone who releases any behind the scenes footage of Trumps time on The Apprentice? Yeah they’re really anti Trump alright. Don’t worry though someone will let it slip or already has… His own side are deserting him.. It’s done, dusted and no amount of complaining about “mainstream media” and no amount of “leaks” from Russian hackers is going to change that.
@Micheal OLainn: @Poole Hyde you do know that they all signed an NDA agreement on the apprentice. Something that is done in a lot of places. So why should someone be allowed to break that nda . Even the go fund page that was set up to try and get someone to break the NDA and pay the amount that was agreed if anyone broke the NDA was $5 million has so far managed to raise just $8000 dollar’s. https://www.gofundme.com/sunlightfund
The person that made that allegation about the apprentice has also now came out and said. He didn’t even work on the apprentice. Just a rumour he heard.
Chris Nee
19h
Chris Nee @chrisdocnee
I have only heard rumors. Never worked on The Apprentice.
I suppose they’re all wrong, NBC News/Wall Street Journal Clinton +11, Rasmussen Clinton +7, UPI/copter Clinton +6,SurveyMonkey Clinton +7, Politico/Morning Consult Clinton +4 ,YouGov/Economist Clinton +6.
The head of NBC could, as Alan Sugar said, grow a pair of balls and release them anyway and argue later that as Trump is now running for president that there are over riding public interest issues.
@Poole Hyde: here you are . Huffington post just released a transcript . Now make sure your sitting down mind blowing stuff.
seems that the HuffPo has gotten and is releasing a video and transcript from the Apprentice. Even though it is illegal the head of Hillarys campaign is stating they will pay up to 5 million for the release. Well, here it is…it is incredible. (the above is layered with sarcasm)
He talks about someone’s…skin? Yup….that’s it. No profanity. No n-word. He talks about a woman’s skin. The HuffPo calls it an obsession with womens looks but it seems he even talks about the guys…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com…;
The episode, titled “Beauty and Brains,” aired in 2010. Contestants were tasked with making over a country music star before presenting them to three music industry insiders. They improved the star’s interviewing skills, produced promotional packets and helped them prepare for live radio shows and performances. One team managed Emily West, a budding musician who later appeared on “America’s Got Talent.” The other managed Luke Bryan, a country singer and songwriter who has gone on to notable success. During the boardroom session that decided which team did the better job transforming its artist, Trump turned the conversation sharply ― and at times, uncomfortably ― to West’s physical appearance, specifically her skin. “I assume you’re gonna leave this off, don’t put this # on the show, you know. But her skin, her skin sucks, okay?” he says, according to the transcript. “I mean her skin, she needs some serious #in’ dermatology.”
Cyndi Lauper, who headed the team that managed West, interjected to explain that they used “dry stuff” ― presumably, makeup ― and said Trump was objecting to something that was “not her skin.” But he remained unimpressed.
“#,” he proclaimed. “That’s Emily, that’s what I’m hearing about? Let me see the other one. I assume you’re not putting this on the show. ‘Cause I don’t wanna destroy the kid’s career.”
Television producer Chris Nee, who did not work on the show, claimed on Twitter that she had heard from staff that there’s footage of Trump using the n-word. (HuffPost could not confirm this.) Nee clarified later that she had “only heard rumors.” but yet you want the head of nbc to release tapes on a reality television show that are based on tumours because they override public interest. Ah come on .
Rumours
Ah diddums, you actually think that’s everything….
Am I surprised no. It’s all just media bluster. Anything now at this stage. They are not dropping out as much as certain media would like to pretend otherwise. More chance of Clinton dropping out than these 2. Especially with the wiki leaks part 2 podesta emails out today and thanks to clinton last night, she admitted that some were true.
Hillary Clinton’s advisers and surrogates spent Sunday explaining away a Wikileaks document dump as “bogus,” and “misleading.” During Sunday night’s debate, however, Hillary Clinton appeared to confirm that the Wikileaks documents were real.
responding to a question from Anderson Cooper Sunday night, referencing a document where Clinton is reported to say you need a “public and a private” position on every issue, Clinton acknowledged that she made the statement.
likely be met with frustration from her closest confidantes and her campaign. She implicitly admitted that at least one piece of Wikileaks’s document dump was accurate.
@LITTLEONE: It must be sad for you to see your hero implode.
Make America Grope Again!!
@Micheal OLainn: you see that’s the type of arrogance that annoys people. Making assumptions. Just because I don’t like Clinton and find her not fit for president. I also say the same about trump as I have on many occasions in articles. So maybe before you make an a## of yourself because some does not like someone, you shiitake a deep breath and keep your bike to yourself.
Here from today. Feel free to apologise Michael
LITTLEONE
5 hours ago # 21 41
@Clever Jake: At least trumps lies were not while he was working on behalf of the American people. Clinton was. Thats the difference people seem to be giving her a free pass on her lies, deceitful carry on. Almost like people are dismissing all of theses although she was first lady , senator, secretary of state . That’s frightening that people will attack people that support trump because he is a liar , loudmouth, racist but don’t mind any of this in Clinton. Hypocrisy at its finest. I find both candidates abhorrent and vile and both not fit for president but making one out to be a saint is ridiculous. World is laughing at America at moment, that this is American politics. A bad reality show .
http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/clinton-trump-debate-who-won-3018838-Oct2016/
Deep breath. Keep your bile to yourself
@LITTLEONE: I would hate any woman or girl to be left on her own with Trump.
The mentality and attitude of Trump supporters gives a great insight into Trump.
I can see it dude… I feel more perverse already
Need I say more. I#iots blindly support and just insult anyone that doesn’t. real class boys and yet you complain about trump. Oh the hypocrisy.
Here boys . Why don’t you go suppor the go fund page that was set up to go after trump. They only need €5.1 million dollars . They believe the same as ye. They have do far raised a massive amount over $8000 dollars. Go them.
https://www.gofundme.com/sunlightfund
@Micheal OLainn:
‘The mentality and attitude of Trump supporters gives a great insight into Trump’
What an amazing insight.
The mentality and attitude of all political supporters give a great insight into that party.
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn.
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
Anyway, well done Michael, you epitomise the Clinton, Democratic, Liberal mindset.
You’re the Bob Geldof of the presidential debate.
A welcome intrusion from a Republican perspective.
Keep up the good work.
Only Hillary Clinton was caught lying to congress.
Only Hillary Clinton was fired from a job for being unethical.
Only Hillary Clinton deleted 30 some thousand emails after she was ordered to hand them over to the Fed.
Only Hillary Clinton had that same computer wiped clean by professionals.
Only Hillary Clinton got the rapist of a teenage girl off on rape charges then laughed about it.
Only Hillary Clinton lied to the American people about Benghazi.
Only Hillary Clinton lied to the American people about her emails.
Only Hillary Clinton lied about being under sniper fire.
Only Hillary Clinton lied about lying to the American people.
Only Hillary Clinton was involved in ” Cash Cow ”
Only Hillary Clinton has a long list of scandals.
Only Hillary Clinton nationally belittled her husband’s sexual harassment ( and rape ) accusers.
Only Hillary Clinton is a career politician.
Only Hillary Clinton will not release her speeches to Goldman Sachs and other banks.
Only Hillary Clinton is tied to Monsanto.
Only Hillary Clinton was labeled ” Extremely careless ” about national security by the FBI !
Only Hillary Clinton said she will raise taxes on the middle class.
Only Hillary Clinton benefited from the DNC rigging an election !
Only Hillary Clinton had to return stolen items from the White House.
Only Hillary Clinton said the Benghazi victims parents where lying.
Only Hillary Clinton wants you to vote for her based on her gender.
Only Hillary Clinton has no real accomplishments after a lifetime in politics.
Only Hillary Clinton has never created any jobs.
Only Hillary Clinton has been investigated by the FBI and found to have put national security at risk.
Only Hillary Clinton has had two or more movies and several documentaries made about her questionable ethics.
Only Hillary Clinton was called “Broomstick one” by the SS.
Only Hillary Clinton made congress and others spend millions and millions of tax dollars having hearings and investigating her to find that she lied, that would not have been spent if she would of simply told the truth in the first place ! Fact – all facts !
Only Hillary Clinton regularly cussed out and belittled her SS detail.
@phil: yawn. You trot that charge sheet out on a regular basis bu the article is on Trump.
To much time on you’re hands mate
@Micheal OLainn: Only Don the Con could become bankrupt running a casino -so how the hell would he be able to run America ..The man hasn’t a fuc#ing clue-fact!
Michael Every article is on Trump and is negative. He brings it on himself sometimes but the bias is undeniable. Listing out Hillary’s gross corruption and psychopathy is only fair.
@Clever Jake: “Trump should be made do lines ”
Judging by the way he keeps sniffing at those debates…………
Love how Trump supporters take unproven allegations and flat out lies as fact when it’s about Clinton but refuse to even believe the words out of Trump’s own mouth as proof of who he is.
Dirty Trump.
Sleazy Trump.
Trump will soon be past history, deservedly so.
@Micheal OLainn:https://youtu.be/uPpzdmQo650
Some one didn’t watch the debate
Trump is the one that is actually facing a rape case before 2017. Of a 13 year old girl no less.
The American public doesn’t give two shots about podesta emails. If they were that sophisticated, Trump wouldn’t have gotten any delegates, nevermind win the nomination.
@JFN: they care about sex scandals, not emails. The same tabloid mentality that propelled trump to the ticket is now tearing him down, in true gutter news fashion.
Can’t believe working with Ailes isn’t being brought up at all.
@Micheal OLainn: Clinton has an average 7.3% lead over Trump.
Dynamic blended average of many polls:
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-general-election-trump-vs-clinton
Pu##y robbed Trump of the Presidency.
Does this mean that Trump was pu##y whipped ?
Bye Trump.
Never underestimate the usefulness of pussy…
Trump lived by the pu##y; now Trump politically dies by the pu##y.
Bill Clinton’s reaction in the presence of Hillary and his rape victims as Trump tells the uniformed masses of bills history of rape and Hillary’s threats to destroy the victims lives live on TV is priceless. He even paid one rape victim 850k to keep her quite.
@Alex Jones:
“He even paid one rape victim 850k to keep her quite.”
You wouldn’t want Bills lawyers getting onto you over that WHOPPER of a LIE that you just wrote !!
Naughty boy!
Anyone checking out wiki leaks and the emails part 2. I think this throws up more difficult dilemma for Clinton then the trump video last week. One assistant had to be talked out of driving her car into the river because of the Clinton’s.
@The spokesman: why bother when you can get 140 characters of scandal on twitter. Nobody is going to read hundreds of pages of emails.
@JFN, you can be sure that someone will read them and pull the best bits for the Twitter feeds.
Silly. Of it can be explained in 140 characters then why don’t they just DM each other?
OMG! This is unreal folks. On Hillary’s website embedded in the source code where programmers look to read code – there is an extraordinary statement that she is going to make the election a HACK-A-THON!
It links to a jobs page where she is recruiting IT professionals to help her achieve this.
To view this click onto her website below, right click and click onto ‘view page source’. It is on the top of the page in green font. I pasted it below for your convenience.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/donate/
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→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→ Git out the vote!
→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→ Join the only 18 month, nationally televised hackathon.
→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→ https://boards.greenhouse.io/hillaryforamerica
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@Chris: pull the other one.
@Micheal OLainn: Click onto her website , right click and view page source. See for your self Michael.
@Chris: Brilliant, goes to a jobs available page of the developer. Amused – even Hillary can make me smile with the right <!– language
@Phil…Well said lad, that Clinton yoke is a bag of puss (y) Oops…
Penny for his thoughts
Don’t bother.. he’d probably loose it and write it off as a 100k tax deduction or something…
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