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A Grounded Plane and Anti-Clinton Passion: How Mike Pence Swayed the Trumps

With the vice presidency potentially hanging in the balance, Mr. Pence described his personal distaste for Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president, and spoke of feeling disgusted at what he called the corruption of the 1990s.

 The monologue appeared to be a success.

.. the Indiana governor was a privately charming man with a strict filter on the public stage.

“He tends to be very formal in public, and he had a reputation when he was in Congress of being a bit stiff,” Mr. Kensinger said. “Pence is a man of 21st-century ideas and 19th-century manners.”

.. At the time, Mr. Trump was fascinated by gossip surrounding the marriage of Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, whose wife had divorced him to be with another man, and then remarried Mr. Daniels several years later.

Mr. Trump declared to Mr. Pence that he would never take back a wife who had been unfaithful, according to the account of a witness

.. “The thing I think both of these men have in common is their preferred leisure time is to spend their time with their families,” Ms. Conway said.

.. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa was inexperienced and evoked unflattering comparisons to Sarah Palin;