DES MOINES, Iowa _ The week was like any other week of Donald Trump's presidency: It started with him threatening to dispatch U.S. troops to the southern border and ended with him calling a Democratic activist who was a target of the pipe bomb campaign a "crazed & stumbling lunatic."
And like every week before it, Vice President Mike Pence ignored the tweets, the statements and the outbursts as he travels across the country delivering the election message the old Republican guard wants to hear as the GOP tries to keep control of Congress.
Pence touted the new jobs created ("4.2 million"), the unemployment rate ("lowest in 50 years") and the success of GOP-backed tax cuts ("the largest tax cuts and tax reform in American history") at every speech and at every campaign event, using language that would have easily earned the stamp of approval from congressional leaders Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
