Donald Trump held a press conference Saturday to formally introduce Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) as his 2016 running mate. In the process, he took the time to explain his long-held belief that Pence's previous endorsement of his rival, Ted Cruz, "was more of an endorsement for me."
Trump described the endorsement as something Pence was forced to do "under tremendous pressure from establishment people." "If you remember," he argued, "[Pence] talked about Trump, then he talked about Ted — who's a good guy, by the way, who's going to be speaking at the convention, Ted Cruz, good guy. But he talked about Trump, Ted, then he went back to Trump. I said, 'Who did he endorse?'"
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