US vice-president says report is ‘disgraceful and offensive’ and ‘latest attempt by media to divide’ Trump administrationThe US vice-president, Mike Pence, has denounced a New York Times article that suggested he is considering running for president in 2020 as “disgraceful and offensive”. It said a number of Pence’s advisers had “already intimated to party donors that he would plan to run if Mr Trump did not”. “Vice-president Pence is a very loyal, very dutiful, but also incredibly effective vice-president,” she added. Pence, who is leading the president’s much-criticised commission into allegations of voter fraud, has remained relatively aloof from the turmoil affecting the White House. The Democratic representative Maxine Waters, however, said this week: “When we finish with Trump we have to go and get” Pence.

Source: The Guardian August 06, 2017 16:28 UTC