Pence to Clinton, Kaine: 'Insults are not a plan'

The Democratic presidential ticket of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine have nothing but insults about Donald Trump to offer to the American people, Mike Pence said Wednesday, dismissing concerns about the Republican campaign's struggle to make inroads among white, college-educated voters.

"Well, look, I actually think it's still early in this election," the Indiana governor said during an interview on "Fox & Friends," remarking upon both campaigns' recent stops in the battleground state of Ohio.


Voters who are undecided "are beginning to focus," Pence observed, "and I think they look at Donald Trump who has now laid out a plan to get the economy moving again, to end illegal immigration, to name and to confront and to destroy ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism as a threat to the world. This entire agenda is resonating with people across the country."

"All we get from Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are insults. But insults are not a plan," Pence said. "American people are responding to the positive agenda that Donald Trump has to make America great again."

The Democratic ticket released a policy book Tuesday titled "Stronger Together," laying out the campaign's proposals on the economy and foreign policy, while Clinton laced into Trump anew on the same day as "temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States."

During his own national security-focused speech Tuesday, Kaine portrayed Trump as a dangerous and volatile commander in chief.

“I don’t need to twist or spin Donald Trump’s words at all. Because once Americans hear his words just as he said them, they’ll reach the same conclusion that national security leaders — Democrats, Republicans and independents — have reached,” Kaine told the audience in Wilmington, North Carolina. “Trump has offered nothing but empty promises and divisive rhetoric. Under his leadership, we’d be unrecognizable to the rest of the world. And we’d be far less safe.”