Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence arrives with his wife, Karen, at a campaign rally at Cox Transportation Services in Ashland, Va., on Oct. 3. In between the homemade signs promoting Donald Trump's candidacy, drivers and voters would see the nation's major LGBT political organization decry Pence's "values." The Sierra Club, like the HRC, had thrown a little money into a campaign to brand Pence as just as extreme as Trump. What worried progressives was that voters, paying attention to the vice-presidential candidates for the first time, might not hear about this. "He's going to have to answer for whether he can defend Donald Trump's attacks against a former Miss Universe; whether he can defend Donald Trump's failure to pay taxes," Mook said.

Source: Washington Post October 05, 2016 00:35 UTC