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<\/a><\/p>\nA lot of what I think is happening \u2014 and I was just talking with some folks here in Pittsburgh about it \u2014 is that people are exhausted about the division and \u2014 and the attempts to kind of divide us as Americans.<\/p>\n
And them stepping up to make this public statement, I think, is courageous, but also, for people like the folks I was just talking with, it really reenforces for them that we love our country, and we have more in common than what separates us. So \u2014<\/p>\n
Q Are you \u2014 are you ready to debate Donald Trump?<\/p>\n
AIDE: All right. Thank you, press.<\/p>\n
(Cross-talk.)<\/p>\n
Q Are you ready to face Donald Trump this week?<\/p>\n
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yes, I am. Yes.<\/p>\n
Q Best part of debate prep for you? What\u2019s your favorite part?<\/p>\n
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Being at this spice store. I finally got out of the debate prep to look at these spices. Best part of debate prep so far. (Laughs.)<\/p>\n
Q But your main message to Trump in the debate. What\u2019s the one thing you want to really get \u2014 get across to him?<\/p>\n
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, there is a lot. But look, it\u2019s time to turn the page on the divisiveness. It\u2019s time to bring our country together to chart a new way forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pittsburgh, PA…Outside Penzeys Spices, Q Madam Vice President, what do you think of the Cheneys\u2019 endorsement, ma\u2019am? Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney have endorsed you. What do you think about that? THE VICE PRESIDENT: I\u2019m \u2014 I\u2019m \u2014 actually, I\u2019m honored to have their endorsement. And I think that what \u2014 they both, as leaders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/whitehouselogo200.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183151,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183150\/revisions\/183151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}