Pence weighs in on campaign coverage: ‘This s— is really fun to watch’

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence shared his thoughts on media coverage surrounding GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump during this campaign season, telling a Virginia audience, “This s— is really fun to watch.”

{mosads}The Indiana governor, who will be center-stage Tuesday night in the first and only vice presidential debate of 2016 against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), says Trump is still “standing stronger than ever,” despite — in his view — mostly negative media coverage.

“It’s like almost every day they come up with something new and different,” Pence said Monday in Ashland, Va. “They say, ‘Now we got him.’ ‘He said this.’ ‘We can parse that.’ You with me?”

” ‘He tweeted this.’ And they think they finally got him. And then they turn on the television the next morning and Donald Trump is still standing stronger than ever before and fighting for the American people,” Pence told the crowd.

“This s— really is fun to watch, I’ll tell you what.”  

Republican voters overwhelmingly have lost trust in the media during this election cycle.

A September Gallup Poll shows trust in media at an all-time low, with a notable split along party lines.

Gallup shows 51 percent of Democratic voters say they trust the media, while only 14 percent of Republicans feel the same way.

The Republican number is down 18 points in one year alone. In 2015, 32 percent of GOP voters expressed trust in the media.