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Mike Pence
early and often
Mar. 19, 2024
Mike Pence Won’t Endorse Trump. Does It Matter? If the former VP holds out, it could help other Republicans abandon Trump. But he can only have a real impact if he has the guts to back Biden.
early and often
Mar. 15, 2024
Will VP Candidates Really Matter in the 2024 Election? Running mates usually matter only at the margins, but Biden dumping Kamala Harris or Trump making a risky pick could affect the race.
early and often
Oct. 30, 2023
Mike Pence’s Candidacy Embodied the GOP’s Post-Trump Delusions The former vice-president wasn’t the only Republican who mistakenly believed the party was ready to move on from Donald Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Oct. 28, 2023
Mike Pence Acknowledges Reality The former vice president, who never had a chance against his former boss, is suspending his 2024 campaign.
By Chas Danner
the power trip
Oct. 7, 2023
Do Any of These People Stand a Chance Against Trump? On the trail with the candidates vying (in theory, anyway) for the Republican nomination.
By Olivia Nuzzi
republican debate
Sept. 28, 2023
Who Won (and Lost) the Second Republican Debate It was a good night for slick con men and a bad one for everybody else.
By Eric Levitz
republican debate
Sept. 27, 2023
Republican Debate: 33 Things You Missed Amid a cacophony of interruptions, the fracas featured Mike Pence’s sex life, DeSantis vs. Trump, Vivek’s hair, Haley’s haymakers, and war on TikTok.
By Intelligencer Staff
early and often
Aug. 26, 2023
What If Vivek Ramaswamy Is the Future of Politics? He has emerged on the national stage as some unholy amalgamation of Obama, Trump, and Musk.
By Ryu Spaeth
republican debate
Aug. 23, 2023
34 Things You Missed at the First Republican Debate The candidates danced around Trump, called for invading Mexico, and ganged up on Vivek Ramaswamy. Here are the highs and lows.
By Intelligencer Staff
republican presidential debates
Aug. 23, 2023
3 Things at Stake in the First GOP Primary Debate Even with Donald Trump offstage, the showdown in Milwaukee could change the trajectory of the 2024 campaign.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Aug. 4, 2023
Pence Is Finally Embracing His Role As January 6 Spoiler Having campaigned on old-school conservatism, the “too honest” former veep may now dominate the ranks of anti-Trump candidates.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Aug. 2, 2023
Pence Makes It Clear Why It’s Necessary to Prosecute Trump The GOP punishes the man who was “too honest,” not the coup leader.
By Jonathan Chait
early and often
July 27, 2023
Pence Raps DeSantis for Boosting ‘Pro-Abortion’ RFK Jr. DeSantis tried to own the libs by joking about inflicting the anti-vaxxer on the CDC or FDA. Old-school culture warriors like Pence weren’t laughing.
By Ed Kilgore
tremendous content
June 22, 2023
Kari Lake Auditions to Be Trump’s Next Pence and/or Melania An innuendo-laced report that Trump’s potential VP pick “practically lives” at Mar-a-Lago is raising uncomfortable questions.
By Margaret Hartmann
the national interest
June 8, 2023
By Jonathan Chait
early and often
June 7, 2023
Pence’s Presidential-Launch Video Doesn’t Even Mention January 6 — or Trump The former veep’s record is dull, and his path to the nomination is very narrow.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 16, 2023
Mike Pence Wants Republicans to Run on Their Most Unpopular Ideas The former veep thinks the GOP should return to pre-Trump policies like free trade, entitlement reform, and forever wars.
By Ed Kilgore
life after roe
Apr. 24, 2023
Trump and Pence Struggle for the Souls of Iowa Evangelicals Pence stressed his support for a national abortion ban while Trump reminded conservative evangelicals he had kept his promises to them.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 15, 2023
Don’t Get Too Attached to This New Batch of Presidential Candidates Recent presidential cycles have been littered with candidates who dropped out before any votes were cast. It could happen again in 2024.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 13, 2023
The Haley-Scott Primary Within the Primary One of these two candidates from the same state needs to make a move sooner rather than later.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Mar. 21, 2023
Mike Pence’s 2024 Support Might Be Even Weaker Than It Looks The former veep is polling in the single digits. He’s alienated just about everyone, so it’s hard to see how he could improve.
By Ed Kilgore
2024 presidential election
Mar. 17, 2023
Now He Tells Us: Pence Suggests Trump Is Not Much of a Christian No one has vouched for Donald Trump’s religious authenticity more than his pious and sycophantic veep. Renouncing it all now seems hypocritical.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Mar. 14, 2023
Trump Says January 6 Violence Was Actually Pence’s Fault In Trump’s twisted logic, Pence is to blame for the Capitol riot because he refused to steal the 2020 election peacefully.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Mar. 12, 2023
Mike Pence’s Condemnation of Trump Is Still a Sad Work in Progress The former vice president’s latest “sharpest” attack on his horrible boss was dull on arrival.
By Chas Danner
early and often
Mar. 3, 2023
Mike Pence’s 2024 Strategy Totally Depends on Iowa Evangelicals The former VP has an extremely narrow path to viability in 2024. It runs through Iowa — following the course set by Huckabee, Santorum, and Cruz.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 23, 2022
The DOJ Wants to Know What Mike Pence Knows About January 6 Prosecutors investigating Trump’s attempt to stay in office reportedly want Pence to testify, which could spell big trouble for his former boss.
By Matt Stieb
the national interest
July 22, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
january 6 hearings
June 21, 2022
Ron Johnson’s Office Tried to Send Pence Fake Electors An illuminating text exchange was revealed by the January 6 committee on Tuesday.
By Matt Stieb
january 6 hearings
June 16, 2022
January 6 Hearings Build Case for a Trump-Eastman Criminal Conspiracy A California judge had already concluded that Trump and his lawyer acted criminally. The House select committee showed why that’s no exaggeration.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 10, 2022
Liz Cheney: Staff Said Trump Wanted Mike Pence Hanged The former president was onboard with the January 6 crowd calling for his running mate’s assassination.
By Benjamin Hart
early and often
June 9, 2022
Mike Pence Doesn’t Deserve a Medal for Refusing to Lead a Coup We should thank the former vice-president for rejecting Trump’s unconstitutional demand on January 6, 2021. But let’s not get carried away.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 25, 2022
President Mike Pence Would Be Worse Than Trump The former vice-president is attempting to bolster his chances in 2024, but Democrats would be wise to beware any attempt to rehabilitate his image.
By Ross Barkan
early and often
May 13, 2022
Mike Pence to Campaign for Fellow Trump Traitor Brian Kemp The two MAGA heretics are, in their own ways, trying to show that Trumpism without Trump has a future.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 28, 2022
Conservative Warns Trump Coup Attempt Was ‘Dry Run’ for 2024 Legal luminary J. Michael Luttig convinced Mike Pence not to join Trump’s plot. Now he says Republicans are perfecting the tactics they used in 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
Pence Unveils Less Unhinged, Equally Dangerous GOP Agenda Rick Scott’s agenda for Republicans is Maximum MAGA, while Mike Pence’s is MAGA Lite. But both contain the same ideological core.
By Ed Kilgore
There’s a 7-Plus Hour Gap in Trump’s 1/6 Call Logs Investigators are looking into whether he might have even used burner phones as the Capitol was under attack.
By Benjamin Hart
Trump Dumps Pence From 2024 Ticket, Wants to Stay Friends Trump cited coup-related differences, saying, “Mike and I had a great relationship except for the very important factor at the end.”
By Margaret Hartmann
Trump Jokes About Starting a War Between Russia and China The former president told an audience of GOP donors that the U.S. should paint Chinese flags on American warplanes and bomb Russia.
By Chas Danner
Republicans’ Selective Amnesia About January 6 Keeps Spreading Even Mike Pence is now treating the Capitol riot as a one-time blip, rather than reckoning with what it meant or why it could happen again.
By Ed Kilgore
The States’-Rights Rationale for Election Reform Conservative legal luminary Michael Luttig’s case for an Electoral Count Act fix may appeal to Republicans, despite Trump’s incoherent objections.
By Ed Kilgore
Pence Rebukes Trump, Calls His View of January 6 Powers ‘Un-American’ Less than a week after Trump claimed Pence could and should have overturned the 2020 election, the former veep laid down the actual law.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Incoherently Attacks Electoral Count Act Reform Trump’s argument against fixing the statute contradicts his own legal team. His decision to weigh in may still hurt reform efforts.
By Ed Kilgore
Wait, Are Mike Pence and Donald Trump Not on Good Terms? The former VP’s claim that he’s spoken to Trump “probably a dozen times” in the last year has been downgraded to “we talked last summer.”
By Margaret Hartmann
election coup
Jan. 20, 2022
The Election Law Central to January 6 Might Actually Get Fixed Both Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are “open” to reform of the Electoral Count Act.
By Ed Kilgore
The Sad, Unconvincing Case for Pence 2024 Despite talk of Pence being the “shadow front-runner” for the GOP nomination, he still has no constituency for a presidential campaign.
By Ed Kilgore
A Plan to Fix the Electoral Count Act Is Taking Shape With more Trump-fueled mischief expected, a bipartisan group of senators is trying to head off future electoral coups.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s January 6 Strategy Was All About Mike Pence In the last year, it’s only become clearer that Pence was Plan A for stealing the election, and Trump kept pressuring him to the bitter end.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2024
Dec. 12, 2021
Republicans Are Too Afraid of Trump to Fix Election Laws Prominent liberals and conservatives favor reform to a statute that helped produce chaos on January 6. But Congress won’t budge.
By Ed Kilgore
State Legislatures Are Still the Key to Trump’s Election-Coup Efforts The radical theory that state legislatures have total power over federal elections is at the heart of Trump’s past, and perhaps future, coup attempts.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s 2024 Veepstakes Is Already Under Way The former president will probably choose someone unlikely to burnish his own self-image of indispensability as his next running mate.
By Ed Kilgore
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