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Originally Posted by Disco King
Presidential nominees typically pick running mates from a state that a nominee's support is weaker in, in order to help fortify one of their vulnerabilities.
From what I've read, support in those states after a running-mate pick doesn't tend to go up a whole lot, but whatever helps, I guess.
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this is the traditional wisdom but Trump picked Pence to get a specific voting bloc on board. HRC and Obama both seemingly picked guys who were just white bread nothings with no controversy surrounding them. And Bush was picked by Cheney haha
but seriously VP is a very interesting office with a very interesting history because their job can be whatever the pres decides it is. they have very few innate duties