CLEVELAND — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence likes to talk about how he morphed from a Democratic “community organizer” to a royal red Republican because of Ronald Reagan, but in a preview of his vice presidential nominating speech here Tuesday he added that he once made the Gipper blush.

Making a surprise stop at an American Conservative Union luncheon, Donald Trump’s running mate told of meeting Reagan at the White House in 1988 during his first losing House race.