Mike Pence Is Doing Everything He Can to Argue Trump’s Exactly Like Reagan

Mike Pence is attempting to make a case to everyone today that Donald Trump is very much like Ronald Reagan.

Pence came to the Ronald Reagan Library today to deliver a speech. And, well, this is basically the big takeaway from his visit:

I want to talk to you today about 2 men. One, who has inspired me my entire life & one who has become my good friend @ronaldreagan40

— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) September 8, 2016

Ronald Reagan's example informed my entire political life and it forms it still to this day @ronaldreagan40

— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) September 8, 2016

Like Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump has the honesty/bluntness to confront the challenges facing the American people from his 1st day in office

— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) September 8, 2016

Like Ronald Reagan, @realDonaldTrump has the toughness to rebuild our economy and command the respect of the world @ronaldreagan40

— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) September 8, 2016

Like Ronald Reagan, @realDonaldTrump knows that in order to have peace, America needs to be strong

— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) September 8, 2016

Ronald Reagan & @realDonaldTrump are different men w/ different styles, but are fundamentally similar in their honesty, toughness & optimism

— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) September 8, 2016

2 different men, 2 different times, but so much the same in the challenges & promise of this moment. As in the days of Reagan, we will #MAGA

— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) September 8, 2016

Pence also gave an interview to CNN’s Dana Bash touching on the same issue. He drew an analogy between Reagan being willing to call the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and Trump calling out radical Islamic terrorism.

(Oh, and he also said Putin is a stronger leader than Obama is.)

When asked by @DanaBashCNN about Trump's comments about Vladimir Putin, Mike Pence compares Trump to Ronald Reagan https://t.co/mz7S0FgM2F

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 8, 2016

CNN aired a clip earlier in the afternoon in which Pence claimed Trump, like Reagan, has a “core of humility.” Bash asked if someone who puts his name on everything is really that humble.

Pence replied, “Well, Ronald Reagan had his name on a lot of marquees.”

Watch a clip from the interview above, via CNN.

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