Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said Donald Trump’s campaign reminds him of President Harry Truman’s winning strategy in 1948.
Pence told radio show host Rush Limbaugh that the 2016 election is far from over despite what Pence argued was the media’s attempts to suggest otherwise.
“My model in all of this, and Donald Trump and I have talked about it, is Harry Truman and his campaign in 1948,” Pence said. “I know you’re a great student of history but it was a similar deal. Remember the Truman and Dewey race, Rush?”
“Oh yes!” Limbaugh replied.
“You had this glamorous guy named Dewey who the political establishment all loved and the media all loved him and Truman just wasn’t having any of it,” Pence continued as Limbaugh laughed. “And he just went out and got on that whistle-stop train and went out and did five, six speeches a day. I forget what history records but it was for maybe six weeks and he brought it home.”
Truman, an incumbent Democratic president in 1948, won re-election after the Chicago Tribune notoriously printed newspapers declaring his opponent, Republican Thomas Dewey, the winner.
Trump insisted on Monday that he was winning the 2016 race, despite polling evidence to the contrary and his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway saying that Trump trailed in the polls.
