The two most breathtaking moments of Governor Mike Pence’s appearance at the Quicken Loans Arena on Wednesday night bookended his speech.

The first was the instantaneously historic speech by Senator Ted Cruz, who pointedly refused to endorse the Republican nominee while not-so-tacitly using the words of the Never Trump movement in urging Republicans to “vote their conscience.”

The second was Trump’s appearance on the stage after Pence was finished speaking, where the two displayed what could only be described charitably as the awkward body language of a couple forced to endure a bad second date.

In any other year, on any other day, Pence’s speech would not have been remarkable. He accomplished, more blandly, what any other vice presidential hopeful has traditionally done by stating the case for his standard-bearer’s candidacy and the case against the opposing party’s nominee.

But this year, and especially on this particular night, Pence’s speech stood out precisely because it hewed so closely to tradition, in direct contrast to the iconoclasts who preceded him on stage for the previous two nights and for the previous two hours.

In addition to the barn-burning Cruz, Pence had to contend with a powerfully delivered speech from Eric Trump, whose display of admiration for his father brought out an emotional response from Donald Trump that voters have rarely seen.

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Source: Julie Roginsky, foxnews.com