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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) Local 24 News political analyst and commentator Otis Sanford shares his point of view on Vice President Mike Pences visit to Memphis.

Was the Memphis visit by Vice President Mike Pencenothing more than a patronizing photo op? The partisans on both sides of thepolitical fence can debate the question all day. And both sides would havevalid points.

Perhaps there was a political motive to Pences visitto the National Civil Rights Museum and Holy City Church of God in Christ on the eve of todays Martin Luther King holiday. After all, a recent nationalpoll found that most African Americans are deeply pessimistic about the DonaldTrump presidency. And eight in 10 believe the President is a racist.

But while the poll results were a notable backdrop toPences Memphis visit, I believe there was some genuineness in his desire tocome to the Bluff City. Yes, Pence has stood silently by as Trump hasdenigrated black politicians, cursed at black athletes, and shown an appallinglack of knowledge of black history. But I take Pence at his word that Dr. Kingwas one of his childhood heroes. And his tour of the civil rights museum wassincere and apolitical.

Pences remarks at Holy City Church, however, didventure into campaign talking points. But he was warmly greeted by thecongregation which was appropriate.

Todays MLK holiday should be a special day for allAmericans. That includes a Veep who despite all thats wrong with thisadministration deserves the benefit of the doubt. And thats my point ofview.

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MILWAUKEE Vice President Mike Pence made a stop to a local Culver's while in town for President Trump's Milwaukee rally.

People inside the restaurant lined up to greet him.

The vice president also greeted diners, booth by booth, briefly talking to customers and thanking his supporters.

Vice President Mike Pence stopped by a local Culver's while in town

The election was brought into the conversation as he was speaking to people.

"Wisconsin made a huge difference last time. The president's on his way right now," he told a couple. "The rally came to you. Do you want to take a picture? Hand someone your camera."

He then greeted several members of the staff and took pictures with them.

The vice president then ordered a turtle sundae and paid with cash.

"It's going on Air Force Two," he told the cashier.

"If any of you sees Mrs. Pence, there's no reason to bring this up," he joked on his way out, turtle sundae in hand.

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Sabrina Haake is running for congress in the home state of Mike Pence. (haakeforcongress/ Instagram)

A lesbian lawyer who wants to tackle the climate crisis is running for congress in Indiana, the home state of Donald Trumps notoriously anti-LGBT+ vice president Mike Pence.

Sabrina Haake is running for Indianas 1st congressional district, which has been Democratic since the 1930s, although most congressional seats in Indiana are held by Republicans.

Haake lives with her wife and three rescue dogs in the city of Gary, Indiana, and she told LGBTQ Nation that her campaign will focus on the climate crisis.

Indiana-born Pence has repeatedly refused to declare that climate change is threat to national security, and in 2014 he said the scientific community had not resolved whether climate change was a man-made issue.

But Haake believes she can reach people by outlining the economic benefits of renewable energy, and said that 40,000 new jobs could be created in Northwest Indiana alone if more federal investment could be secured.

She said: Everyone we know can drive electric cars, but at the end of the day if we dont get industry to convert, it wont make any difference.

Its just reality. Industry needs federal resources to convert. We cant ask steel to just invest billions and trillions into infrastructure upgrade.

Of course LGBT+ rights have a personal significance to Haake and, according to her website, she promises to be a fierce advocate for legislation such as the Equality Act, which would make discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity illegal under existing civil rights law.

She continued: Aside from the White House efforts to deny job protection to gay people, its no secret that the current environment in Washington is hostile to LGBTQ people.

The president has repeatedly narrowed the rights of trans people, including the right to serve in the military, and the White House has rescinded protections for the rights of trans students in federally funded schools.

Republicans at every level of government routinely draft legislation to deny gay people rights to basic human needs, like housing, employment healthcare and education.

These attacks hurt all of us, but they especially hurt low-income communities of colour.

In contrast, Pence advocated for taking away healthcare from trans people in the US military, before helping to ban them from serving completely, and said same-sex marriage would lead to societal collapse.

Haake said she had a tough upbringing which lead her to plan, if elected, to assess children in first grade for signs of trauma, and to focus on increasing mental health support in Indiana.

She wrote on her website: I had a tough upbringing, I wont hide it. As is true for many families today, we struggled.

My home life was fraught with chronic and extreme domestic violence, untreated mental illness, and acute substance abuse.

We need to stop the stigma and have a bold, honest discussion about trauma in the home so that children living with violence and substance abuse know they are not alone.

Pence voted against making coverage of mental health conditions equal to coverage of physical health conditions.

Although her life experiences inform the issues she fights for, Haake said she doesnt want her sexuality to be the focus of her campaign.

She told LGBTQ Nation: I dont think thats a qualification. I think thats part of who I am as a person.

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The Heritage Foundation, where President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence often look to for policy guidance and support, is boosting its team to take on threats of socialism and academic liberalism driving that challenge to democracy.

The Capitol Hill-based think tank that has advised Republican presidents from Ronald Reagan to Trump told Secrets that it has brought on four visiting scholars who are experts and advocates of American exceptionalism, and who will help it tackle the socialistic trend exploding on colleges campuses and among politicians in and outside of Washington.

Their academic credentials will allow Heritage to more forcefully engage on some of the biggest issues confronting our country: the decline in civics, the lefts takeover of our educational institutions, the rise in popularity of socialism, and challenges to our form of government, said the organization in its announcement.

The new team:

The four, who Heritage plans to feature in its regular and social media, will allow Heritage to more forcefully engage on some of the biggest issues confronting our country: the decline in civics, the lefts takeover of our educational institutions, the rise in popularity of socialism, and challenges to our form of government, it said.

Heritage noted, for example, that Guelzo has tackled the New York Times 1619 Project on slavery. The 1619 Project is not history. It is conspiracy theory, Guelzo told a Heritage audience in October 2019. This is polemic, and a polemic born in the imagination of those whose primary target is capitalism itself, and who hoped to tarnish capitalism by associating it with slavery, he added.

Heritage President Kay C. James said, From its inception, the Heritage Foundation has always worked to bring together the best minds in the country to develop solutions to the pressing issues that America faces. These new scholars in the Feulner Institutes Simon Center are no exception. We are truly excited about the work they will undertake and we hope it will provide the foundation to inspire and unify the American people under a common purpose and a common set of principles.

Heritage is relocating the Simon Center for American Studies within the Feulner Institute, named for Heritage founder Edwin J. Feulner.

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On Tuesday, right-wing, flag-loving,pro-Trump pastor Hank Kunneman and his wife, Brenda, appeared on pastor Benny Hinns television program, where Hank delivered a prophetic message from God that Vice President Mike Pence will be elected president in 2024.

Kunneman kicked things off by repeating his claim that God had told him that President Donald Trump would get two terms in office, with each term representing one of the World Trade Center towers that fell on 9/11. But, he added, the two towers represent not only two terms for Trump, but also two presidencies for godly leaders.

Kunneman then claimed that he recently had a vision in which he saw the foot of the Lord slam down on America and smear itself back and forth across the nation.

And then the voice of the Lord spoke, Kunneman said. He said, They tried to impeach Moses. I never thought about that in all of my understanding. They tried to remove him. They didnt like him. They complained about his leadership They got the people to complain and become the devils prophets. Yet God raised up this man because he saw something in Moses that the people werent seeing. You know what it was? He stood up for God and he stood up for the nation.

God had a plan and an agenda to rescue a nation, he added. And when his foot came down in that vision, he said these words, he said, Who is on the Lords side? So this is very important in this time that we side with God and we side with what he is doing.

Kunneman then related yet another vision in which he claimed that God showed him the words payback and recompense, with an emphasis on the last syllable as Pence.

Why do you think God allowed a man to be raised up with the name Trump? Kunneman asked. The Lord said, Im standing in the midst of the man and my spirit is attached to him and Im putting Trump and Im calling it tr-i-umph, with Im standing in the middle. Why do you think theres the word Pence? Because there is something of Gods plan if we pray and cooperate with God prophetically.

Hinn was elated by the revelation.

Lets believe that the church will do that, Hinn said. That the church will turn things around and Pence will become president in 2024. Somebody say hallelujah. The church needs a born-again, Holy Ghost tongue-speaking president in the White House. We all want that.

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