Why isn't Pence helping with the evangelical vote?

[edmund]

This morning on CNN a pastor was interviewed and he expressed reservations about Trump for moral values and decency.  I thought that Mike Pence was supposed to help in this regard.  But the pastor did not even mention Pence's name once as reassurance for any concerns he had about Trump.  Is there any point in having a running mate at all if so many people don't even know or care who it is?  A vice president could be selected after the election along with the cabinet.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

This morning on CNN a pastor was interviewed and he expressed reservations about Trump for moral values and decency.  I thought that Mike Pence was supposed to help in this regard.  But the pastor did not even mention Pence's name once as reassurance for any concerns he had about Trump.  Is there any point in having a running mate at all if so many people don't even know or care who it is?  A vice president could be selected after the election along with the cabinet.

Pence helps just fine with the fake-religious scum who pretend to follow "Christianity" as an excuse for their self-righteous intolerance and bigotry.

He's worse than useless for appealing to anyone sincere in their religious beliefs. But such voters, while they may not support Clinton, are basically not voting for Trump in any case.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

If Pence was the presidential candidate things would be different. But no one votes based on who the vice president is, barring an extreme situation like McCain picking Palin, or if Clinton had picked Warren. The presidential candidate is Trump - he is not an evangelical, and doesn't act like one. For that matter, he doesn't act like any sort of good christian. In fact, he doesn't even act like a good, self-respecting citizen. Those evangelicals who do support Trump fall into one of two categories:

1) they are "voting for the republican platform, not the man at the top of the ticket", or
2) they are so afraid of "Crooked Hillary" or so against abortion that they can't force themselves to vote for her or Johnson*

*Yes, they could vote for Castle or McMullin, but the overwhelming majority of Americans have no idea who they are.