Pence allies launch super PAC to support a potential candidacy
"People know Mike Pence, they just don't know him well," one co-chair said. As former Vice President Mike Pence enters the final weeks of considering whether to make a presidential run, a group of conservatives is launching a super PAC to support his potential candidacy, according to several sources familiar with its planning. The group, Committed to America, will be co-chaired by veteran GOP consultant Scott Reed, former Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling, and Bobby Saparow, former campaign manager to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Michael Ricci, who ran communications for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, will run the PAC's communications. The co-chairs hope to in part reintroduce Pence to voters, who they believe don't have a full sense of who the former vice president is, and catch the attention of voters perhaps stuck on other candidates. "People know Mike Pence, they just don't know him well," Reed told a small group of reporters Friday that included ABC News. ...