With the latest polls showing Hillary Clinton pulling away in the final two weeks of the presidential race, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence urged more than 450 supporters at a Colorado Springs rally to “reach out to all your Republican friends and say it is time to come home.”
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate, on the third stop of a day of campaigning that began in Nevada and would end in Nebraska, exhorted the vocal crowd to vote and told them “it is not time to make statement, it is time to make a difference and make sure that Hillary Clinton is never elected president.” He said the choice between candidates in the presidential election “could never be more clear” and that whoever is elected Nov. 8 may get a chance to shape the U.S. Supreme Court for decades by appointing several justices.
Pence spent much of his 40-minute speech outlining how Trump planned to cut taxes for both individuals and businesses, halt illegal immigration, renegotiate trade deals, repeal the Affordable Care Act, put a moratorium on new federal regulations and end what he called “the war on coal.” He also said told the crowd, which included dozens of veterans, that Trump would rebuild the nation’s military, restore the “arsenal of democracy and give the military the resources they need to so they can hunt down and destroy ISIS (the Islamic State) at the source.
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