Updated on July 15 at 10:55 am after Donald Trump confirmed that Mike Pence will be his running mate.

Donald Trump just announced that Indiana governor Mike Pence is his pick for vice president. And that means the online masses are frantically picking apart Pence's digital footprint in search of something incriminating—or at least that's at odds with Trump.

There's plenty to work with.

Shortly after The New York Times reported that Pence will likely be Trump's running mate, this Pence tweet surfaced, a clear jibe against Trump's pledge to ban Muslim people from entering the United States.

In another, Pence voices support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which Trump calls "terrible."

The swiftness with which Pence's own words are being turned against him shows just how difficult it is to run for office or pick a running mate in 2016. To accuse someone of flip-flopping is an age-old insult in politics. Now that politicians have social media accounts and armies of constituents constantly demanding to know how they feel about the news of the day, hiding those inconsistencies becomes tougher. By sheer force of character, Trump has managed to overcome all the times he's contradicted himself. Not everyone can.

To be sure, plenty of mainstream Republicans have come out against Trump's proposed Muslim ban, and even the US Chamber of Commerce has rejected his stance on trade. So the fact that Pence disagrees with Trump on those issues may not carry all that much weight on the right.

What's more likely to hurt him—and Trump—among moderate Republicans is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act he signed into law in 2015. It would have allowed Indiana businesses to deny service to people on the basis of their sexuality. The bill was widely condemned as discrimination, with the state's own Chamber of Commerce calling the law a hit to Indiana's "national identity as a welcoming and hospitable state."

It also drew the ire of tech industry leaders like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. In a Washington Post op-ed, Cook compared the Pence-signed Indiana law to Jim Crow. "The days of segregation and discrimination marked by 'Whites Only' signs on shop doors, water fountains and restrooms must remain deep in our past," he wrote. "We must never return to any semblance of that time."

Pence amended the bill in an attempt to curb fears of discrimination, but he couldn't win, as social conservatives lashed out against what they saw as a weakening of the legislation.

In other words, Pence is no stranger to the battles that rage in media, both social and traditional. But now that he's Trump's running mate, it's safe to say he ain't seen nothing yet.