Vice President Mike Pence congratulates UMD Bulldogs ... for high school hockey title

Somebody needed to do a better job of preparing Vice President Mike Pence for the platitudes part of his speech in Duluth on Wednesday.

August 9, 2018 at 1:33PM
(Howard Sinker/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Oops, just oops.

Nobody expects a national political figure to have a total grasp of local accomplishments when they parachute into town. But somebody needed to do a better job of preparing Vice President Mike Pence for the platitudes part of his speech in Duluth on Wednesday.

Maybe this comes under the heading of #FakeSports

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