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The Vice President will be in town on Tuesday.

Vice President Mike Pence will visit Troy to host a Keep America Great rally at theDetroit Marriott Troy, 200 W. Big Beaver Rd. Doors open to the general public at 3 p.m., and close at 4:30 p.m., for the 5 p.m. event.

The Oakland County stop is part of a two-stop Michigan bus tour that begins with a visit to Lansing Tuesday morning. While there, Pence will deliver remarks at the annual Michigan Farm Bureau Lansing Legislative Seminar, which is attended by stakeholders, farmers, and legislative leadersto discuss policy and issues affecting agriculture and

Pence's visit comes two weeks before the state's presidential primary on Tuesday,March 10, and with early-voting in full-swing. He's visited Michigan multiple times during the current election cycle including stops in Saginaw, Portage, and Holland in December.

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Although President Trump won Michigan in 2016 by a 10,704-vote margin, he's currently trailing all of the Democratic presidential candidates inhead-to-head general electionmatchups, according to a battleground statepoll conducted by The University of Wisconsin-Madison Feb. 11-20.Sen. Bernie Sanders has the largest lead (seven-percentage points).

In 2016, Oakland County voters chose Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Trump by eight percentage points or a 53,867-vote margin,according to theOakland County Elections Division. Although Sanders defeated Clinton during Michigan's March primary, he lost to Clinton in Oakland County by nearly 8,000 votes.

Election Day is still six weeks away, but many Michigan voters are getting a head start on casting their ballots.

In January, Trump held a rally in Warren at Dana Manufacturing Inc., an automotive supplier, one day following his signing of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA). It was the president's second visit to Michigan in a six-week span after holding a re-election Christmas rally in Battle Creek in December.

Since 2017, Pence has visited Michigan 12 times, including five stops in Oakland County (Bloomfield Hills, Auburn Hills, Birmingham, Rochester, and Waterford Township). Trump has visited the Great Lakes State five times since taking office (Ypsilanti, Washington Township, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, and Warren).

President Donald Trump was greeted by a friendly crowd at the Dana Inc. plant in Warren Thursday to talk about a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada that he feels will present a "whole different ballgame" in terms of manufacturing.

EAST LANSING (AP) A man held up a hostile poster a few rows behind Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin as she spoke. On other side of the room, all

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) Vice President Mike Pence made several stops across Hampton Roads during a visit on Feb. 19. The final one was at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, where he met with naval special warfare operators.

During his stop at Oceana, Vice President Pence spoke with WAVY News 10s Andy Fox. They touched on several topics, including the strength of the military in the Hampton Roads region and President Trumps effort to win re-election.

We met Vice President Mike Pence at NAS Oceanaafter he spent a full day in Hampton Roads,

Good to see you again, Andy, thanks for coming out, the VicePresidenttold us after beginning what is the thirdinterviewwe have conducted with him.

While democrats are revving up for Super Tuesday Primaries,includingVirginia, we asked what thebottom linemessage is for whatwillbe four years ofTrump-Pence.

This Presidentsaid we were going to revive oureconomyandcreating taxcuts,and cutting red tape, how wewantfreeand fair trade,and now we have a booming economywithmorethan7 million jobscreated.

Some of Vice President Pences detractors and pundits suggest President Trump could replace him on theNovember Republicanticketwithperhaps former United NationsAmbassador Nikki Hailey which isextremelyunlikely. He smiles at the question.

Ill letotherssaywhat I brought to the ticketfouryears ago,and whatIllbringto the ticket again in 2020.I will tell you, Andy,it isthe greatesthonorof my life to beVice-Presidentandto run for re-electionas Vice-President again.

The Vice President told us about how he sells the President and theAdministrationacross thecountry.

He saidwe were going to rebuild our military. Here in Hampton Roads Iseethecommitment that he hasmadetoactiveduty members as well as our veteranswhich is alarge part of life here inVirginia. He is also appointingconservatives to ourcourt. Whatever roleIhavebeen able to play in helping move that legislative agenda onCapitol Hillhas beenaprivilegefor me.

We asked him aboutU.S.Attorney General WilliamBarrandthe latest controversyleaving Barr with no option but to tell the Presidentpubliclyhis tweeting and his commentsabout Justice Department Prosecutions makes it hard for Barr to do his job.

The Presidenthas made no secret after three years of endlessinvestigations,aculminationVice-President Pence also summed up where he went across Hampton Roads.

To be able to be here in Virginia today, to be out with all of the brilliant people at Langley Research Center as we revive human space exploration and the mission of NASA. To be at Hampton University, one of the great historically black colleges in this country and to see the commitment the president has made to all of those great institutions.

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Barring the unforeseen, Pete Buttigieg will not be the Democratic nominee. Though he will not win the presidency, he can claim one real achievement: solidifying a consensus among educated Americans that it is wrong to oppose a candidate because he is married to someone of the same sex.

During the Iowa caucuses, a video circulated of a woman who wanted to retract her support for Buttigieg. Are you saying that he has a same-sex partner? the woman asks in the video, which has been viewed more than 3 million times. Then I dont want anybody like that in the White House.

Buttigieg addressed the clip on The View, saying that even if he did not gain the womans support, he hoped to govern in a way that benefitted her. Some of his hosts were less gracious. After one pointed out that Buttigieg and his lawfully wedded husband Chasten had been featured on the cover of Time magazine, Joy Behar said, She doesnt read Time magazine. Whoopi Goldberg asked, Does she read anything?

The consensus is so strong that Buttigiegs campaign has been accused of exploiting it to discredit opposition to his campaign among black voters. A leaked memo prepared by his campaign said, Being gay was a barrier for these voters, particularly for the men who seemed deeply uncomfortable even discussing it. (Buttigiegs campaign has denied responsibility for the leak.)

If Christian teaching is wrong to oppose homosexual acts, then so are those who oppose Buttigieg because he is married to a man. If the Christian view is irrational, so are political judgments based upon it. But if Christian teaching is correct to reject homosexual acts, then it is eminently reasonable to oppose a candidate whose election would normalize them.

Our president is not only head of government but head of state. He plays a quasi-sacerdotal role as the head of the American civil religion, ending many of his public utterances with a priestly benediction: God Bless America. It is impossible to put a person in that role without proposing that his manner of life is acceptable, even admirable.

Of course, one need look no further than the current occupant of the White House to see that the moral standards for holding the presidency are not very high. Nor is Trump the first president whose life has run counter to the Christian idea of marriage and sexuality. Buttigieg, happily, does not share Trumps glaring vices. In his public manner, he is far more regular and respectable. But his way of life likewise runs counter to Christian morality. Certain evangelical writers have insisted that Trumps sexual behavior disqualifies him from holding the highest office. Are they prepared to say the same about Buttigieg?

Perhaps a candidate's personal morality should not determine how we vote. Certainly some Christian voters have allowed a selective and exaggerated moralism to overwhelm more pressing considerations. But it is unreal to suggest that the personal conduct of a candidate should have no bearing on our willingness to support him. Personal conduct will prove to be very public every time a President Buttigieg appears at state functions or on TV beside the man to whom he is civilly married.

Progressives tend to think, wrongly, that their political opponents are uniquely prejudiced. Since the 1960s, the American National Election Studies (ANES) has regularly asked American voters how warm or cool they feel toward certain groups. As Darel Paul describes in From Tolerance To Equality, the 2008 ANES found that Americans with a bachelors degree are significantly warmer toward three groupsAsian-Americans, Jews, and gay men and womenthan are Americans without a bachelors degree. But they are significantly more cool toward three other groupsthe working class, the poor, and Christian fundamentalists.

Despite significant differences in class attitudes, four of these six groups are regarded warmly by Americans with and without a bachelors degree. The only two groups on which opinion is truly divided are Christian fundamentalists and gay men and women. Americans without a bachelors degree are warm to Christian fundamentalists and cool to gay men and women. Americans with a bachelors degree are warm to gay men and women and cool to fundamentalists.

Many people are uneasy with the fact that Mike Pence's wife teaches at a school that says wives must submit to their husbands. They are uncomfortable with the idea of a mother of seven sitting on the Supreme Court. They believe they have rational bases for these antipathies. They are sure they have nothing in common with Christians who do not want a gay couple in the White House.

The woman in Iowa who tried to withdraw her support from Buttigieg was making the same kind of decision as those who stopped supporting Trump after they heard the Access Hollywood tape, or those who do not want a president whose family practices male headship. Though one can disagree with her conclusion, it was indefensible only if the Christian view of sex is indefensible. It has no place in our politics only if that view has no place.

Matthew Schmitz is senior editor of First Things.

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On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin appeared on Capitol Hill, and in response to questions about the nation's escalating budget shortfall, he assured lawmakers, "I stand by our comments that the tax cuts will pay for themselves. This will be simple math."

His timing could've been better. Around the same time as his testimony, Mnuchin's Treasury Department announced that the U.S. budget deficit from the first quarter of the fiscal year -- the three-month period covering October 2019 through January 2020 -- was $389 billion.

The nation had a $1 trillion deficit last year and it appears we're well on track for another this year. But it was against this backdrop that Vice President Mike Pence told CNBC's Wilfred Frost that deficit concerns simply aren't as important as economic growth.

"The president came into office and he said, 'First and foremost, we have to restore growth,'" Pence said. "Deficits and debt are right in line, but it is first about getting this economy moving again and we really do believe the trajectory of this economy," [the vice president added].

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The quote didn't cause much of a stir, which is a shame because it was an important moment given the context of the larger fiscal debate.

During Barack Obama's presidency, especially as the nation struggled to address the Great Recession, the entirety of the Republican Party linked arms and made their economic vision plain: the United States, they said, must focus on balancing the budget and shrinking the trillion-dollar deficit.

Even after the economy had fallen off a cliff, even as unemployment was climbing toward 10%, GOP officials -- including a House Republican Conference chairman by the name of Mike Pence -- said the key to prosperity was prioritizing deficit reduction over investment.

Accused of trying to sabotage the economy and deliberately hurt Americans because there was a Democrat in the White House, Republicans feigned outrage. No, no, GOP officials said, this was a sincere belief that larger deficits would stand in the way of economic growth.

A decade later -- by sheer coincidence, I'm sure -- Pence and his party have miraculously discovered that everything they said at the time was backwards. The same Republicans who said deficits hinder economic growth now believe deficits can help fuel economic growth.

Imagine that.

Donald Trump himself, after promising voters he'd eliminate the budget deficit, echoed the sentiment last month. Responding to those who criticized his willingness to add trillions to the debt, the president told supporters at Mar-a-Lago, "Who the hell cares about the budget? We're going to have a country."

The New York Times' Paul Krugman explained in a column last week, "The implications for party strategy are stark: Maximum cynicism is the best policy. Obstruct, disrupt, and hurt the economy as much as you can, deploying whatever hypocritical excuses you think the media will buy, when the other party holds the presidency. Then abandon all concerns for the future and buy votes once you're back in control."

It's awfully convenient of Mike Pence to prove Krugman right.

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