I agree with your take. You may be right about Pence also.
I’m not convinced he could have done much better than Trump
at giving this an honest evaluation though.
The guy has really gone South, so it’s not loyalty making
me say thing.
I thought Pence was a wuss from the getgo-and likely to fold and change sides if threatened in any way, when everyone was saying how calm and polite he was, etc-courage of a rabbit...