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EAU CLAIRE Forty days before Election Day, Vice President Mike Pence stopped in Eau Claire to tout the Trump administrations record on the economy.

In friendly territory speaking to about 100 workers inside a countertop factory of Menards subsidiary Midwest Manufacturing the Republican vice president said President Donald Trump stands up for American jobs and American workers.

Pence highlighted the administrations efforts to roll back red tape, pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and bring back manufacturing jobs, saying U.S. businesses created more than 7 million jobs, including 61,000 in Wisconsin in Trumps first three years in office.

The president said early on we were going to bring back our factories, we were going to bring back jobs, we were going to bring back those four beautiful words Made in the USA and and thats just what weve done, Pence said, drawing applause from the audience.

The presidents daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, also addressed the crowd briefly, praising the craftsmanship she saw in a tour of Midwest Manufacturing and saying, Companies like yours, people like you, this is what President Trump is fighting for every single day.

The vice president, who chairs the White House Coronavirus Task Force, later acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a blow to the economy but insisted that Trump softened the impact by pushing for the distribution of personal protective equipment, ramping up testing and banning travel to the United States from China in late January actions Pence said saved hundreds of thousands of American lives.

Were slowing the spread, were working to flatten the curve and ... were opening up America again, Pence said.

Ivanka Trump backed up that claim, declaring, The great American comeback is well underway.

In Wisconsin, official seasonally adjusted Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show total employment rose from 2.99 million in January 2017 when Trump took office to 3 million in January 2020, a gain of 11,900. Total employment dropped to 2.86 million in August, or 129,700 below the level in January 2017. State manufacturing jobs rose from 468,400 in January 2017 to 484,100 in January 2020 before dipping to 458,700 in August.

The campaign of Democratic challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden offered a starkly different take than Pence on the economy and Trumps handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in a statement released Thursday in advance of the vice presidents visit to Wisconsin.

This week, Wisconsin passed the grim milestone of 100,000 positive COVID-19 cases and theres no end in sight, said Kate Bedingfield, Biden for President deputy campaign manager. Infection rates are skyrocketing, tens of thousands of workers have lost their jobs while tens of thousands more have dropped out of the labor force completely, small businesses have permanently closed, parents are anxious about sending their kids back to school all because President Trump and Vice President Pence still have no plan to get the virus under control.

By contrast, Bedingfield said, Biden has a plan to confront the pandemic and will restore the middle class and invest in Wisconsin manufacturing.

As of Thursday, the United States had reported nearly 7 million COVID-19 cases, or 22% of the 32 million cases worldwide, and 202,404 coronavirus-related deaths, or 21% of the 979,388 reported globally, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.

Pence also touched on two other hot-button issues when he talked about filling the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death Friday of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the violence that followed Wednesdays announcement that a Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman, in a March drug raid connected to a suspect who didnt live at Taylors home. Two officers were shot Wednesday in the protests that erupted in response to the news.

After calling Ginsburg a true public servant who paved the way for women in the law and noting that he paid his respects Wednesday evening as she lay in repose at the Supreme Court, Pence said Trump plans to exercise his constitutional right to nominate a principled conservative woman to the court on Saturday.

After the United States Senate fulfills their duty to advise and consent ... were gonna fill that seat, Pence said.

The rush to replace Ginsburg before the election has drawn protests from Democrats who say its hypocritical for the Republican-controlled senate to take that action now when four years ago the body refused to give a hearing to former Democratic President Barack Obama nominee Merrick Garland, who was nominated eight months before the election, with GOP senators then claiming that letting voters have a say in the choice through the election was the right thing to do.

Regarding the wounded officers, Pence said they are expected to recover.

Violence against law enforcement must stop and it must stop now, Pence said, adding that he and the president support the right to peacefully protest but believe there is no excuse for the rioting, looting and violence that has followed incidents this year such as the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, both at the hands of police.

Ill make you a promise, Wisconsin, Pence said. Under President Donald Trump and this vice president and this administration, we will always back the blue. Were not going to defund the police, not now, not ever.

Midwest Manufacturing employee Mike Stanton of Eau Claire said he was fortunate to be picked to be one of the workers permitted to attend the event and came away impressed.

I thought it was great, Stanton said of Pences 35-minute speech. Im a pretty hard-core conservative, so I agree with everything he said.

After the event, Pence boarded a bus heading for a Cops for Trump campaign event in Minneapolis.

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Less than six months after Mike Pence became vice president of the United States, he offered intriguing advice to the graduating class of Grove City College.

Servant leadership, not selfish ambition, must be the animating force of the career that lies before you, he told graduates of the Christian school. Dont fear criticism. Have the humility to listen to it. Learn from it. And most importantly, push through it. Persistence is the key.

Its good counsel, but hard to mesh with Pences own boss: Humility and acceptance of criticism havent been hallmarks of President Donald Trumps tenure.

The contrast is hard to miss: Critics have ridiculed Pence for his unwillingness to dine alone with any woman whos not his wife and pointed out that Trump has bragged about past promiscuousness, had three wives, and faced multiple sex scandals.

How does Pence persist?

Part of the answer lies in Pences belief that the president is pursuing good policy. Another part might be found in a commencement speech he gave to the U.S. Naval Academy during the same month he visited Grove City College. He told the graduates that an orientation to authority was critical to good leadership: Follow the chain of command without exception.

Pence did criticize Trump during the 2016 Republican primaries, and he endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ahead of the contest in Pences home state of Indiana. But after Trump tapped Pence as his running mate later that year, Pence followed the chain of command.

Overt criticism of Trump by Pence has been rare. The most serious criticism Pence leveled came just before the 2016 election when an Access Hollywood tape from 2005 revealed Trump making sexually lewd and aggressive comments about women.

Pence reportedly considered dropping out.

He publicly said he was offended by Trumps remarks and that he could not condone or defend them. After Trump offered a public apology (calling the statements locker room talk), Pence continued in the race, and his public support for the president has been unwavering.

Its an interesting relationship and an interesting contrast: While Trump relishes Twitter battles and campaign rallies, Pence has remained low-key and understated in his work.

After widespread rioting erupted in June following the death of George Floyd, Trump made a high-profile walk to St. Johns Church in Washington, D.C., where authorities had dispersed demonstrators in a chaotic scene before the presidents appearance.

Two days later, Pence made a quiet visit to a mostly black church in Maryland to listen to a small group of men and women discuss their concerns about race and other issues. The group expressed support for some of Trumps policies but also told Pence of the struggles they face.

Derek McCoy, a black Christian who works for Compassion International, told the vice president he sometimes has to advise his adult sons about where its safe to go and asks them to check in with him. McCoy said he wasnt bitter, but that it was important to acknowledge the struggles in the country: America is listening, and we have to have the right tone.

Pence sat quietly in the circle as others in the group took turns talking about their experiences and giving their suggestions. He told them: We are here with ears to hear.

On other issues, Pence has listened to an admittedly surprising source: Joe Biden. In her 2018 book First in Line, Kate Andersen Brower reported that during the first year of the Trump administration, Biden and Pence talked at least once a month.

Biden told Brower that Pence has asked for his advice on the office and that they often discussed foreign policy. He acknowledged the pair disagree on plenty of issues, but Mikes a guy you can talk with, you can deal with, in a traditional sense.

A final motivation for Pences loyalty to Trump may be embedded with an obvious question: If Trump wins a second term, does Pence want to run for the presidency in 2024?

Pence, 61, mostly refuses to talk about presidential prospects publicly. And speculation has already swirled around other potential Republican hopefuls, including former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.

But its hard to imagine its not on Pences mind. Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris seemed to show accidentally how much the prospect can occupy even a potential vice presidents mind when she recently started a sentence: In a Harris administration

She quickly added, with Joe Biden as the president.

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Vice-President Mike Pence has something to say. In fact, he has something to give you. What is it? Its his meat. He has some meat, and its for you.

How do I know this? Because Pence told everyone all about his meat at a speech last week during a Farmers and Ranchers for Trump rally in Iowa. Pence got the farmers and ranchers all riled up as he spoke about his Democratic opponents in the general election: Senator Harris said that she would change the dietary guidelines of this country to reduce the amount of red meat Americans can eat, he said. Thats when he made a candid offer: Well, Ive got some red meat for you. The crowd cheered, going wild for Pences meat.

I for one didnt know that Pence had such strong feelings about his meat, and that he would be talking so much about it during his speech, really just pounding away.

Anyway, have a good day everybody.

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Joe BidenJoe BidenHouse passes B bill to boost Postal Service Trump seeks to overcome eroding support among women Here are the states where Kanye West is on the ballot MORE has announced Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala HarrisTrump seeks to overcome eroding support among women Does Trump suffer from 'self-destructive syndrome'? Could Kamala Harris transform law enforcement as the vice president? MORE (D-Calif.) as his running mate in 2020. While many in the liberal media are hailing Bidens choice as safe, Harris is anything but that. Harris may appeal to the left, but she doesnt have much to offer mainstream America.

Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceTrump holds private funeral service for brother Robert Trump at White House Democrats prep ads, events to hit Trump during GOP convention The Hill's Convention Report: Postmaster General grilled | Looking ahead to GOP convention | Trump campaign passes billion in spending MORE, by contrast, has a proven record of delivering on the promises that the American people want the Trump administration to keep. In thehead-to-headbetween Pence and Harris, Pence is clearly the better choice.

Lets start with abortion.Seventy-five percent of Americanssupport some legal restrictions on abortion access. Any safe or representative vice president pick would hold views that reflect this fact. But Harris is not that pick. As a senator, Harris co-sponsored the Womens Health Protection Act, which would make it impossible for states to enforce precisely those legal restrictions Americans want, things like informed consent laws or mandatory waiting periods. And just earlier this year, Harris voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would make it a federal crime for doctors to withhold life-saving medical care from an infant who survives a botched abortion.

For Harris, appealing to the far lefts radical pro-choice politics takes precedence over defending the right of an infant to receive healthcare. With Harris on the ticket, Biden is running the most pro-choice campaign in history.

Meanwhile, Mike Pence has helped lead the charge on many, if not all, of the Trump administrationsoutstanding anti-abortion accomplishments. And even though many Americans have come to accept Roe v. Wade, the vast majority of them, and also a3 in 10 minority of Democrats, still reject the radical pro-choice politics of the contemporary left.

Then theres religious freedom. In an era of highly polarized partisan politics, religious freedom is one of the few areas where almost all Americans agree. An AP-NORC poll from 2015 found that8 in 10 Americanssupport religious freedom for Christians. Americans understand the importance of religious liberty for the distinctly American vision of a free and flourishing republic.

Fromdiscriminating against a judicial nomineebecause of his Catholic faith toopposing the right of private businessesto uphold their faith against the Affordable Care Acts mandates, Harriss record on religious liberty is far from stellar. And twice now, Harris has introduced the Do No Harm Act to Congress, a bill designed to gut the religious liberty protections established by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.

Mike Pence has a proven record as a staunch advocate for religious freedom, both before and since entering the White House. Pence has even said that one of theproudest momentsof his service as vice president came when he delivered a tie-breaking Senate vote to allow states to withhold federal family planning money from abortion providers. And together with Trump, Pencetook the issue of religious freedom before the U.N.to help protect religious freedom abroad.

Pence is also the victor when it comes to school choice.Sixty-seven percentof Americans support school choice, with58percentsupporting government vouchers for private schools. But back when she was running for president, Harrisjoined in the chorus of Democrat voices decrying school choice initiativesand proposing legislation that would directly limit and infringe on the right of every American to get the education they want. Pence, on the other hand, has consistently fought to expand school choice, both at the local level while he was governor of Indiana and at the national level as Trumps vice president.

These are just three key issues, but they paint an accurate picture of what sets Pence apart from Harris namely, that Pence is taking the positions that the majority of Americans want, while Harris is way out in the left field.

As a grassroots organizer, Ive witnessed firsthand the disconnect between the Democratic partys drift ever leftward and the opinions of real everyday Americans. Americans, by and large, want some pro-life protections. They want their freedoms upheld. They want their Christian faith defended. And they want their country to be led by people who represent them.

But on almost every issue of consequence, Kamala Harris represents, not the base of ordinary Americans, but a far-left fringe of progressive activists. In this regard, shes woefully out of touch. If the choice for 2020 wasnt already clear, it just got clearer. In the Pence vs. Harris matchup, Harris simply cant compete.

TimothyHeadis executive director of theFaith and Freedom Coalition,a national grassroots movement of over two million conservatives and people of faith in support of time-honored values, stronger families, and individual freedom.

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Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Bidens decision to choose Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate leaves President Donald Scared Trump with little choicehe needs to dump Vice President Mike Pence.

I know, its a shame for both Trump and Pence. The two seemed like a match made in a strange and wildly inaccurate version of heaven.

But Trump will see the fanfare the Harris pick bringsshes an energetic and experienced lawmaker, a former prosecutor and attorney general, and the first woman of color on a major party ticketand then hell look over at Pence and see a man as electrifying as a dollop of mayonnaise.

For a president who spends most of his time watching TV or tweeting about things he saw on TV, the telegenic Harris will be too much to bear.

Sure, the Trump campaign will start out, as it did moments after Bidens announcement of his vice presidential pick Tuesday, with attempts to smear Harris for having embraced the lefts radical manifesto (speaking of which, someone send me the manifesto, I didnt get it) and suggesting she will help Biden surrender control of our nation to the radical mob and open our borders and appease socialist dictators.

But Harris presents a problem for those whose thinking has been impaired by Fox News overexposure. Shes not a radical leftist of any sort. Shes a former prosecutor who, if anything, has a prosecutorial background that bothers the far left. A presidential primary campaign and years of public service mean shes already well-vetted, and her energy and relative youth compared with Biden, and with Trump, for that matter, will give the campaign a spark.

She doesnt suffer fools lightly and wont be easy for Trump to pin down with demeaning nicknames or sexist swipes. Im not saying Harris is perfect, or Biden is an unstoppable force. Not even close.

But Harris is a smart pick, and shell give Biden the thing Trump craves most: attention.

That will drive President Me-Me-Me nuts, and you can bet your membership to Mar-a-Lago that come the next round of not-so-great poll numbers, hell start seeing Pences personalityone part lightly salted mashed potatoes, one part guy whose faux-piety makes you kind of squirmyas a liability.

And dont think Pence is indispensable. Trump needed him the first time around to reassure/con evangelical voters into overlooking his history of being a womanizer, a foul-mouthed bully and, well, a Democrat. But Trump has fully Trumpnotized evangelicals. Theyve bitten the Trump-branded apple and he could pick the lyrics to a Marilyn Manson song as his running mate without losing voters.

Imagine the possible ways Trump could spice up his campaign by ditching Milquetoast Mike and firing up his addicted-to-being-fired-up base.

The most noted possibility is former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, but she seems tied up lately in a dispute with The Popcorn Factory, an Illinois-based company that apparently messed up some delivery orders.

Haley tweeted Monday: Ok @PopcornFactory two messed up birthday orders missed delivery dates with no explanation. First time I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Second one tells me not to buy from you again. #DisappointedNephew.

Shes clearly not in a good position to join the Trump campaign right now. Thoughts and prayers. But there are other sensible vice-presidential suggestions to help get the Trump Train chugging:

An angry can of Goya beans. Not long ago, after the head of Goya Foods praised Trump, the president continued his demolition of political ethics by promoting several of the brands cans of beans. People in Trumps campaign are likely to think this will constitute diversity, and if the can of beans can effectively communicate a message of intolerance, it will perfectly augment Trumps reelection message.

The MyPillow guy holding a can of angry Goya beans. Trumps base LOVES Mike Lindell, the CEO and founder of MyPillow, a company that makes pillows that I assume cause liberals neck pain. Pairing Trump with Lindell would energize voters who admire TV salesmen, and the angry Goya beans would just be added value for the campaign.

A yacht emblazoned with Trump banners. This is likely to be Trumps ideal pick. He has repeatedly tweeted images of yachts and other large boats displaying Trump flags and signs with exclamations like: We love our boaters! Theres even a Boaters for Trump hat for sale on the Trump campaign website. So why not leverage this sensible appeal to Americas forgotten men and women -- the yacht owners who for so long have had no voice -- by ditching Pence and replacing him with a sleek Riviera 6000 Sport Yacht. The slogan writes itself: Trump/Yacht 2020: Make America Buoyant Again!

The bottom line is that Democratic excitement over Bidens choice of Harris has to be met with something splashy. And you couldnt make Pence splashy if you threw him off a Riviera 6000 Sport Yacht.

So go for it, Mr. President. Dump Mike and find the running mate of your reality television dreams. I hear Kanyes available.

Rex Huppke is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

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