The Trump/Pence ticket really, really likes Kentucky Fried Chicken

Catherine Garcia, The Week US's avatar
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Mike Pence and his mother, Nancy, dine on KFC aboard an airplane.
(Image credit: Twitter.com/Mike_Pence)

We now know what likely brought Donald Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, together: It's not their stances on trade, immigration, or Medicaid expansion, but rather a mutual love of eating Kentucky Fried Chicken aboard airplanes.

On Monday, the Indiana governor tweeted a cute photo showing him and his mother, Nancy, chicken in hand, enjoying a KFC feast from 30,000 feet in the air:

Earlier in the month, Trump tweeted his own dinner photo featuring him eating solo, knife and fork at the ready, a lone piece of KFC fried chicken on his plate and mashed potatoes and gravy still in their containers:

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And just like that, the Trump/Pence ticket secured the Kentucky, chicken farmer, and white colonel votes.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US
Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.