JFK left us LBJ tragically, and Reagan left us GHW Bush. Pence was a terrible pick, but it’s indicative of how Trump was thinking he could play nice with the Establishment. He should know now that he CAN’T
I think the only thing that would discourage Trump supporters at this point would be to pick another Pence.
People keep saying how awful Pence was.
But I watched him for four year, standing beside or behind Donald Trump, supporting him in every way, never offering a contrary opinion or doing anything to undercut him. If that’s not true, please bring some examples.
In the end, he decided he could not go outside the constitutionally-defined role of the President of the Senate regarding election certification and everyone started calling him a traitor and drawing horns on his head.
Pence followed the constitution, no matter how much I wish he could have done otherwise. The flaw is in the constitution which was written by men of integrity who never in their wildest dreams imagined the nation they so carefully crafted would be subverted by power-hungry election fraud.
Pence may have turned in to some kind of prick afterward, and maybe he was all along - but from the public record I say it’s hard to prove he was anything but a loyal vice president.