She fucking HATES campaigning and public speaking, and didn’t want to give a speech at all. I thought she did pretty well, considering.

Oh are spouses off limits now, even when they’re out and vocally campaigning? Will the Trump folks be apologizing to Bill Clinton for all the insults, then?

Manafort wasn’t defending Melania - he was desperately trying to save his own ass. Apparently he personally signed off on the speech (rickroll, plagarism, and all) and it was written by a pretty senior staffer. So now his only way to rescue himself is to be like “no, it wasn’t plagarized and if it was, Melania wrote…

Look at her Senate campaigns - she’s a fucking WIZARD at making sure her opponent is a moron.

I think anyone who has ever seen his old show or his new show, or his bit at the WHCD, or has generally heard of him in any context whatsoever could probably guess who he’s voting for. Doesn’t make him not funny.

He does the same bit for both Republicans and Democrats. He’s been doing it since the beginning of the race because the R field was so overcrowded.

It’s free on the CBS app or website every morning.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Bc Trump’s whole thing is how he’s going to hire “the best people.” So if Pence is seen as contradicting him, it makes him look weak. They’re going to have to get Pence on message, which, as you point out, could be a moving target from moment to moment. Should be fun.

Lol. Fair point.

His support nationally seems to top out around 40% - even in the recent polls where they’re closer, it’s because Clinton fell off after the Comey announcement, not because his support is expanding. That’s important because it suggests that the usual “bump” moments - the VP announcement, the convention, etc. aren’t…

The two-ply campaign.

Trump’s ONE consistent position has been his anti-free-trade stance. Pence is firmly pro-TPP. Trump has been selling his ability to “protect” gays and how much gays love him. Pence signed the most sweeping anti-gay law in the country and then couldn’t figure out how to “fix it” (and within the space of 1 day said the…

The hope in picking Pence is that it calms down the establishment and thereby pries loose some of the bigger Republican donors. The Koch Bros are very close with Pence, although they remain unconvinced. Pence isn’t going to move voters, but he’s very well-connected with the money pipeline in a way guys like Manafort…

Lol. It keeps getting better:

I smell a Jezebel art project!

It’s been an HOUR. Neither Trump nor Pence’s homepages have been updated (Pence’s is still his “Pence for Governor” page which, God knows how THAT works since he’s officially submitted his withdrawal paperwork), Pence’s campaign twitter bio still hasn’t been updated, his “donate to Pence for Governor” tweets haven’t…

Yep. He found out from a reporter that it wasn’t him, got PISSED, then heard Trump on TV saying he hadn’t made a “final final” decision, so he went full lunatic to see whether he couldn’t get Donald’s attention. Now that that didn’t work, he’s going to have to walk the whole steaming pile of shit back before the…

Like everything Trump, this is being managed in the worst possible way. Instead of a day of replaying sound bites from a big press conference, The TV news will have an entire day to just go do oppo research on Pence, replay old speeches (like the one where he got to the podium and just stood there for like a full…

Only thing that would have been better would have been if she was like “Sorry I said you were a racist orange garbage monster, Donald. Oh, I didn’t say that to a journalist? Ok, then I’m not sorry for that one.”