Will Mike Pence Satisfy the Insatiable Right?
Presumably Trump and his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, thought that picking Pence would please Midwesterners, Christians and hard-core conservatives. Certainly, Manafort knows a crazy right-winger when he sees one.
.. But did Trump really need to reassure the religious right? In a pollconducted last month by the Pew Research Center, 78 percent of white evangelicals said they would vote for Trump.
.. Viguerie said Pence’s “spineless retreat” under “pressure from the radical homosexual lobby is indicative of a problem we face throughout our culture, and especially in the conservative movement, and that is a lack of moral courage in the face of evil.”