Trump Running Mate Has Anti-Online Poker HistoryIndiana Gov. Mike Pence Supported UIGEA, RAWA |
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As Michigan, Pennsylvania, California and New York all consider regulating online card games for real money, there is, fortunately, little chance currently of an online poker ban coming from the federal government.
According to GamblingCompliance, at the recent Republican National Convention in Cleveland, the GOP platform didn’t call for a ban on online casinos. It had in the last two elections. This year, there wasn’t a single reference to gambling from the GOP platform.
That’s the good news, but as the Poker Players Alliance pointed out, Donald Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has a history of being anti-online poker. Should Trump win the White House, Pence’s stance on the issue could be problematic.
“[Pence] went as far as to author a letter to the Indiana Congressional delegation asking them to support the [Sheldon] Adelson bill that would shut down state-licensed poker websites and prohibit new ones,” the PPA wrote in a press release last week. “As if that was not enough, he made sure to send a copy to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), sponsor of the House version of the prohibition legislation, to provide backing for one of Chaffetz’s Congressional hearings on the subject.”
The letter, dated May 1, 2014, also mentioned that Pence supported the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act, which had a hugely negative impact on the poker boom at the time.
According to FiveThirtyEight.com, the RNC has boosted Trump’s odds of winning the Electoral College, but it’s still very hard to tell by how much. The polls indicate it could be a dead heat.
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