Pence: 'I've Never Heard' Talk About Discouraging Democratic Turnout

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published OCTOBER 28, 2016, 8:34 AM EDT


Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence was taken aback Friday morning when asked about a Thursday report detailing the Donald Trump campaign's tactics to discourage Democratic voters from casting their ballot for Hillary Clinton.

On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Bloomberg's John Heilemann noted that a Trump campaign official told Bloomberg Businessweek that the campaign has "three major voter suppression operations under way." The adviser detailed how the campaign is trying to turn African-Americans, women, and other Democratic voters against Clinton.

"Is that okay, for your campaign to be involved in voter suppression?" Heilemann asked Pence.

"Number one, I haven't read the article," Pence replied. "That's offensive to me, that kind of language. It's not our operation. Donald Trump and I want every American who has the opportunity to vote to vote in this election. And that's our message, is to tell the American people that this country really belongs to them."

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pence-offensive-trump-campaign-voter-suppression

[AmericanActivist]

1. Um Donald and Mike don't talk much eh. LMAO

Just sayin'

[NewJeffCT]

2. He hasn't heard talk

but, this has been Republican action for decades.

[Blue_Adept]

3. What, he can't hear himself talking?

Maybe the voices in his head are too loud.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Goodness no!

Said Con Man, Jr.

[George II]

5. Mike, you weren't paying attention.

Your plane last night is like your campaign, stuck in the mud.

[apcalc]

6. TOO FUNNY

the price for being out of the loop

[atreides1]

7. He hasn't heard about it!

We can't expect the man to remember all of the voter suppression operations going on...his operation in Indiana is foremost on his mind!

[Lochloosa]

9. Oh Bullshit Pence. Look at your own state you fucking asshole.

Indiana officials are trying to block almost 45,000 black citizens from voting

https://thinkprogress.org/indiana-registration-raid-51a6a7a83f37#.sm7h7m6rg

Roughly 45,000 newly registered voters in Indiana — almost all of whom are black — may not be allowed to vote next month after state police targeted the state’s largest voter registration drive, forcing it to shut down its operation.

Police raided the Indiana Voter Registration Project (IVRP) offices on October 4, seizing documents and equipment and forcing the group to cease its get-out-the-vote efforts one week before the end of the state’s registration period. Bill Buck, a spokesperson for the liberal nonprofit Patriot Majority USA which runs the IVRP, told ThinkProgress that IVRP could have registered about 5,000 more voters in that additional week.

[jberryhill]

10. The sheer volume of things this guy can't hear is amazing

[sorefeet]

11. He also said this morning that

we need to reelect a Republican congress. But no one called him on the fact that the Republican congress we have, has a 9% rating for 6 years now. Would you hire any person who is going to give your company 9% of his job requirements??? They usually want 110%.

[dalton99]

13. He doesn't have access to news reports.

[Augiedog]

14. Abject lying seems to work for tRump, so hey, why not go with that philosophy, uh pEnce?

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Pence is a card shark, ain't he?

Always cuts himself the long hand

[brett_jv]

23. I recently learned that the original expression is 'Card Sharp' ... a LOT of years I heard wrong ...

Just thought I'd share my recently-gained education.

Oh, and please, just stfu Pence, you're full of f***ing shite.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. Then Pence is a Sharp Shark

and both are used with subtle differences

http://grammarist.com/usage/card-shark-card-sharp/

[cstanleytech]

16. Oh please, you really expect us to believe Governor Pence that you were not aware?

The GOP itself has been actively engaged in a massive voter suppression scheme that they are hiding as voter ID laws.

[Xipe Totec]

17. Oily bastard. No wonder he skid off the runway. nt

[Mc Mike]

18. Right. He doesn't want every American who has the right to vote to vote.

He's just talking about the ones his crew lets have the opportunity to vote.

And if that means some bundy brigaders are blocking the door to the polls, or some repug national committee connected lawyers are backing the voting line up for 6 hours with challenges to electors, or some repug sec of state lost their voter registration -- those people who don't wind up getting to vote might have the right to vote, but just don't have the opportunity.

He's perfectly consistent, he's not lying, he's saying exactly what he thinks. Bircher swine, repuglican nazi.

[Liberalagogo]

19. Of course he hasn't heard anything...

His head is too firmly implanted in the RUMP.

[neeksgeek]

20. If this is true (which I doubt), then he isn't using his ears.

[NastyRiffraff]

21. So he also hasn't heard

that Trump suggested cancelling the election and declaring himself president? He also hasn't heard of the 45,000 Blacks in his own state of Indiana being at risk of not being allowed to vote?

I'll bet he has heard of the nonexistent "danger" of voter fraud; it's his own theme song, sung at maximum volume. The same voter fraud that's used as an excuse for--guess what?--voter surpression.

[bulloney]

22. Pence is reminding me more of Sgt. Schultz on the old TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes.

Any time you ask him a tough question on the latest crap the Trump campaign is pulling, he seems to always resort to, "I know nothing! NOTHING!"

[luvmybluestate]

25. pence, too extreme for blood red ind. n/t

[bravenak]

27. Pence: I am an enthusiastic liar