Vice President Mike Pence praised President Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday as the start of a pivot that would bring the country forward in a more united and bipartisan way.
Pence said on NBC Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress was the president he knows behind the scenes. Now that the American people have seen him as Pence sees him, the vice president believes the turmoil sweeping the country may calm down.
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“What the American people saw was the president I serve with every day,” Pence said. “Broad shoulders, big heart.”
“He’s a fighter … but maybe it was just the context of the elite nature of an address to a joint session of Congress that the American people saw him in full,” he added.
Pence said Trump laid out the framework of his agenda and he hopes Congress gets behind him in the coming weeks, months and years to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, pass an infrastructure plan and reform the nation’s tax code.
“What the president did last night was what great presidents do, which is lay out his agenda for the American people,” Pence said. “It gives me great confidence that we’re going to be able to move this country forward, hopefully in a bipartisan way.”
