Pres. Trump would be a figurehead only letting Pence run the show
How Donald Trump Picked His Running Mate
By ROBERT DRAPER JULY 20, 2016 NY Times
One day this past May, Donald Trumps eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reached out to a senior adviser to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, who left the presidential race just a few weeks before. As a candidate, Kasich declared in March that Trump was really not prepared to be president of the United States, and the following month he took the highly unusual step of coordinating with his rival Senator Ted Cruz in an effort to deny Trump the nomination. But according to the Kasich adviser (who spoke only under the condition that he not be named), Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless:
Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?
When Kasichs adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his fathers vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy.
Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?
Making America great again was the casual reply.....................more
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/magazine/how-donald-trump-picked-his-running-mate.html?_r=0
And Pence is about far right as you can get.