Mike Pence has personal and professional ties to Arizona. Here are 5 things you may not know
For a lifelong midwesterner, Vice President Mike Pence has quite a few Arizona ties.
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Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the “Veterans for Trump” event at the Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park on Sept. 18, 2020.
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Some, like his son’s ongoing military service in Yuma, are personal. Others, like the overseas trips he took with the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, are professional. And some are a bit of both, like his working relationship-turned-friendship with Gov. Doug Ducey.
“I’m telling you what,” the vice president told a West Valley crowd in mid-September: “The Pence family loves Arizona!”
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Pence will return to the Phoenix area Thursday to host a rally at a tactical-gear supply business in Peoria as Arizona continues its countdown to the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Ahead of his
