Politics | Mike Pence Trump Tweets: It's Pence He picks Indiana governor as his running mate By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Jul 15, 2016 10:17 AM CDT Copied Indiana Gov. Mike Pence joins Donald Trump at a rally in Westfield, Ind., Tuesday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) His plans for a big announcement Friday of his running mate were thrown off by the attack in Nice, so Donald Trump resorted to a familiar medium instead: On Twitter, he announced that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will be his vice presidential candidate. It's not a huge surprise given the major outlets had reported as much on Thursday. The move means that Pence will not be running for re-election in his home state, though he wasn't exactly a shoo-in anyway. For Trump, it provides a staunch conservative to shore up his support on the right. Or as Politico puts it, the pick "adds an established, mainstream conservative politician to his unconventional bid for president." Trump will have a press conference Saturday morning at 11am. Read These Next Christina Applegate pulls back the curtain on her real life. Driver who killed Dixie Chicks founder hears his fate. SCOTUS hands significant loss to private prison company. Cops say assisted living worker fatally shot a resident in the head. Get breaking news in your inbox. What you need to know, as soon as we know it. Sign up Report an error