Vice President Mike Pence is flipping between backing his boss’s tough talk and articulating a more conciliatory approach to the protests sweeping the nation
As protests unfolded over the latest police killing of a middle-aged black man, an African American bishop asked Mike Pence a simple question: How can you personally reunite a racially splintered nation?
To be sure, Pence has echoed his boss’s calls for strict enforcement against rioting and looting each time he’s publicly weighed in on the civil unrest. But his own comments — which he often pairs with sympathetic language about the purpose of the protests — lie in stark contrast to Trump’s standalone “LAW AND ORDER!” tweets.
But the White House meeting with state attorneys general, police union representatives and local sheriffs also underscored the delicate line Pence must straddle as he attempts to inject a more conciliatory tone into the administration’s response to anti-racism protests without revealing a dissonance with Trump’s “law and order” positioning.
At one point, Pence acknowledged that the economy alone cannot deliver racial justice: “It will not be enough for us to just heal our economy. We’ve got to heal that which divides.” “This has brought up old wounds and pains that many of us who are middle-aged and black have experienced in this country and with law enforcement. I’m hoping we don’t let this moment go by without any significant changes,” said Rev. Charles Harrison, adding that he and Pence “are good enough friends that I can share my honest perspective with him.”
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