WASHINGTON _ Mike Pence does not have the star power of President Donald Trump and is not one to draw large crowds on the campaign trail. His political team has crafted a 2020 strategy that both plays to the vice president's strengths and compensates for what doesn't come naturally to Trump: shaking hands in local diners and ice cream parlors.
Pence recently completed a bus tour in Kentucky and has similar ones planned for Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin_three states his campaign strategists believe are critical to reelection and where they see the Republican politician's Midwestern roots as being most useful.
The former Indiana governor will direct his energy to states heavily populated by white, working-class voters that he and Trump must win next November to stay in office.
