“but all those consultants and grifters will run away with millions in donor contributions, just like Jeb!’s did.”
You nailed it. All the Lincoln Project type grifters and parasites need a warm body. Pence seems to be too dumb to know they are just using him as such.
I think Pence knows how the game is played: he'll get his ego stroked, probably walk away with some cash and move on to a number of corporate board appointment sinecures from which he'll collect hundreds of thousands per year each.