“Because we need Mike Pence as vice president and because we need those Supreme Court nominees, those are just two of the reasons I support Donald Trump as president,” said U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-CD5, introducing Indiana Gov. and Republican nominee for vice president Mike Pence to the stage Wednesday in Colorado Springs.

“I’m just grateful to be joined by Jeanie’s husband,” Pence said jokingly after taking the podium to the sound of Free’s “All Right Now” pumping through the speakers at high volume. “One of the strongest, most unapologetic conservatives on Capitol Hill, Congressman Doug Lamborn. … I can say I was with Doug Lamborn before it was cool.”

Continuing into a string of polished stump speech lines, Pence said, “We will let the American people decide their future” during his 27 minute address in the Antlers Hotel ballroom that was packed with about 400 vocal supporters who got what they hoped to receive from Pence, reinforcement of core conservative values and a strong discussion on policy that underscores, if not slightly softens, Donald Trump’s outspoken rhetoric.

Hours earlier in a phone interview with Fox News, Pence endorsed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) for his reelection bid, a divergence away from his running mate, Donald Trump, who had said “I’m just not quite there yet” in regards to getting behind the Wisconsin congressman. This following Ryan’s condemnation of Trump’s comments that many believe inappropriately belittled the parents of deceased U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan.

The situation marked an unprecedented and bizarre move by Trump and Pence to exhibit a split on an issue as big as endorsing their party’s highest elected leader in the House of Representatives.

But supporters on hand didn’t seem to be phased much by that conundrum.

“This country is in a decline,” said Jared Owensby, a Colorado Springs resident and Trump supporter in attendance at the rally. “I think that Governor Pence is a good fit for Donald Trump.”

Owensby added that he believes Trump and Pence, “are the yin and yang that really needs to take place.”

“I think the whole ticket with Trump and Pence will be what America needs,” Therese Dills, another Trump rally attendee told The Statesman. Dills also made clear that conservatives on the fence over Trump must vote for him and his Indiana running mate to prevent four more years of “the Obama debacle.”

“It’s only going to be more and more clear that Trump is the right choice,” said Nicole Devers, a woman who was attending the rally with Dills.

After Lamborn applauded Pence’s “conservative” congressional record and convocations were delivered by two local pastors, Pence began his speech by stating, “I am a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican in that order,” to an applauding crowd.

He elaborated in his half hour address why he joined the billionaire real estate magnate on the GOP ticket by indicating that Trump is simply the right man for the job.

“Donald Trump gets it,” Pence said. Pence also pulled no punches when it came to Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. Several times throughout the speech, Pence criticized Clinton by telling the audience that if elected, the former secretary of state’s handling of the Oval Office would result in what may as well be a “third term” for President Barack Obama. That line drew hisses and boos.

Pence spoke on key policy issues that Trump has heralded throughout the campaign. Pence struck a chord with the crowd when he spoke on Trump’s proposal to insert a “constitutional conservative” onto the Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

“I think it is important to remember that the next President of the United States will set the course of the Supreme Court,”Pence said. He reminded the crowd that Trump’s short list of “constitutional conservative” candidates for the Supreme Court includes a judge from Colorado, Allison Eid, who served as a clerk for current Justice Clarence Thomas.

“President Donald Trump is for law and order for every community in this nation” Pence asserted while making the case that the New York real estate mogul is the right candidate to protect police officers and maintain public safety. He took a moment to recognize police, Secret Service agents, and other first responders in the ballroom.

Pence also promised to the audience that the Trump-Pence ticket was the right team to grow the economy and to get “workers working” again.

Pence spent the remainder of his time giving personal anecdotes of growing up with the ‘American Dream’ and said that “anybody can be anybody,” in America.

The Colorado Springs event was Pence’s third and final Colorado campaign stop for the day, having hosted a town hall meeting for a group of roughly 150 and attending a high-dollar lunch fundraiser in Denver earlier in the day.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also in the metro area, delivering a similar length speech in Commerce City to roughly 2,500 attendees at Adams City High School, a location her husband former President Bill Clinton had spoken at in support of Obama’s reelection effort in 2012.

At the end of the day, organizers and supporters seemed to agree the Colorado Springs Pence rally went off without a hitch. No complaints were lobbed toward the Colorado Springs fire marshal and no, Pence did not get stuck in an elevator during the visit.