“Here’s a good rule about vice-presidential selections: Even when they matter, they usually don’t matter much,” Nate Cohn writes.
“Donald Trump’s newly selected running make, Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, seems even less likely to affect the result than most. He’s a relatively safe choice: an experienced but relatively unknown politician from a state that the Republicans were already expected to win.”


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