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2016 US ELECTION

Sanders endorses Clinton as Trump floats VP picks

– Pence as Trump’s VP? –

Trump, who has proclaimed himself “the law and order candidate” amid rising gun violence, unleashed a barrage of criticism, saying Sanders “abandoned” his grassroots supporters by joining forces with Clinton.

“I want to tell you, a lot of Bernie Sanders people are so upset about it, they are going to be voting for Trump,” he said in Westfield, Indiana.

The Republican billionaire campaigned there with Governor Mike Pence, raising speculation that he could pick Indiana’s chief executive as running mate.

Trump told The New York Times he expected to make an announcement by Friday, three days before the Republican convention in Cleveland, where he will officially become the nominee.

He called Pence a “good man” during his unscripted remarks, but also teased the crowd.

“I don’t know whether he’s going to be your governor or your vice president. Who the hell knows?” Trump said to raucous cheers.

Trump had hit the campaign trail Monday in Virginia Beach with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie – one of those on the vice presidential shortlist.

Christie’s experience running a populous state could be seen as critical for Trump, who has acknowledged his own lack of political and government expertise.

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Pence also brings executive experience, and the salt-of-the-earth Midwesterner has shown a steady hand that could help counter the narrative that Trump is too incendiary and quick to provoke.

Pence is a 12-year veteran of Congress, well versed in international affairs from his time on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who ran for president in 2012, is also in the running mate mix.

He said he expected Trump would announce his pick on Wednesday or Thursday.

“Certainly no later than Friday, because they’re going to want to dominate the weekend news with the vice presidential selection,” Gingrinch told Fox News.

Trump’s Indiana appearance was his first speech without a teleprompter since deadly violence last week plunged the nation into racial angst.

“Our whole nation grieves and mourns for the loss of five heroes in Dallas,” Trump said, choosing his words carefully.

But he also stressed that “the hostility against our police has to end.”

“We have to stay together, and we have to be strong,” he added.

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Hours earlier, Trump reportedly declined to speak at the upcoming conference of the NAACP, snubbing the nation’s largest African American civil rights group for an engagement that would have taken place just as the Republican convention kicked off.

“You cannot run for president and skip the opportunity speak on the nation’s civil rights agenda,” the NAACP posted on Twitter.

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