Vice President Mike Pence

While occupying the Governor’s office of Indiana, and about to be sworn in as the country’s second in command, Vice President Mike Pence has demonstrated a preference for Milwaukee Iron. He began riding Harley-Davidsons in his younger years, and in July 2016, borrowed a buddy’s black Street Glide and led the Ride with the Governor charity event. The 100-mile ride aided the Indiana National Guard Relief Fund’s efforts to help service members and their families as well as to spotlight motorcycle safety via the ride’s organizer, American Bikers Aimed Towards Education (ABATE).

“At the RNC [Republican National Convention] in Cleveland, Mike Pence came up and poked me in the chest. I was wearing a T-shirt with a motorcycle image, and he said, ‘I got one of those at the house, young man,’” says Chris Cox, Founder of Bikers for Trump.

While the event’s route has varied since it was first launched in 2005, this go-around found VP-to-be Pence, along with 250 other riders, cruising downtown Indianapolis and then over to the town of Corydon, the state’s first capital circa 1816 to 1825. When interviewed, he joked that riding motorcycles was “required in the Constitution.”

That idea may be shared by New York State’s Congresswoman, Claudia Tenney, as she and Pence learned that they both share a common bond with Harley-Davidson as well as sons serving as Marines. As they talked, Tenney said, “I noticed a picture circulating on Facebook of you with a Harley. And he [Pence] said, ‘Yes, do you like to ride?’ And I said, ‘Yes, I have a Harley too.’”

As it turned out, during her campaign she aired a video showing her riding her white and blue 2015 Softail DeLuxe. Her political stance also echoed Pence’s and the President’s campaign points. “I ran on a very similar agenda that Trump ran on,” Tenney tells us. “Less taxes, limited government, reducing regulations, dealing with the national debt, trying to reduce, repair and replace and get rid of Obamacare.”