HUFFPOST HILL - America Trembling With Excitement For Mike Pence, Might Barf

Hillary Clinton appears closer to selecting Tim Kaine or Tom Vilsack as her number-two, meaning DNC organizers are going to have to direct the bejesus out of next Wednesday’s programming. Donald Trump refused Melania’s speechwriter’s resignation, an awful punishment as it prevents her from taking a near-assured CNN contributor gig. And Trump said his wife’s plagiarized convention speech “got more publicity than any in the history of politics,” though he forgot about the Slovenian model’s famous remarks that “an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” This is HUFFPOST HILL for Wednesday, July 20th, 2016:

LATEST REMINDER THAT DONALD TRUMP DOESN’T REALLY WANT TO BE PRESIDENT - Robert Draper: “One day this past May, Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reached out to a senior adviser to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, who left the presidential race just a few weeks before. As a candidate, Kasich declared in March that Trump was “really not prepared to be president of the United States,” and the following month he took the highly unusual step of coordinating with his rival Senator Ted Cruz in an effort to deny Trump the nomination. But according to the Kasich adviser (who spoke only under the condition that he not be named), Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history? When Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy. Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of? ‘Making America great again’ was the casual reply.” [NYT]

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