Mixed Feelings About Vice President-Elect Pence In Northwest Indiana
(CBS) – U.S. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is Indiana's outgoing governor.
CBS 2's Jim Williams went to the northwest corner of the state to see if there's pride in the man who will be a heartbeat from the presidency.
In Whiting, Ind., he talked with Judy and Tom Cholipski, married for 59 years but divided on how they feel about native son Pence.
"The state is doing well, financially -- the country needs that," Judy says.
Tom counters: "If he's going to operate the way he did in the state of Indiana, there's no pride at all because I don't think he did a good job."
His wife explains: "We don't talk politics."
It seems Tom has the common opinion in heavily Democratic northwest Indiana, though Donald Trump and Pence easily won the state as a whole on Election Day.
"The victory for Trump and Pence together is not that well accepted here in this corner of the state," says Jim Dedelow, owner of WJOB Radio, and the morning show host.
There was opposition to Governor Pence's support of a measure seen as hostile to the LGBTQ community.
"I believe he lets his religion get in the ways of governing," Jake Cuthbertson says.
Says William Thomas: "I personally feel Mike Pence might not be very good for the country."
But insurance agent Jim Kozak praises Pence's stewardship of Indiana's budget and has high hopes for the vice president-elect.
"I think he'll do a very good job," he says.
Pence will be succeeded by Republican Eric Holcomb, who was elected governor.
