nobody in the tea party ever fell for pence. he and the gope stabbed our wonderful candidate Richard Murdock in the back, and purposely handed a red state senate seat to the dems to keep the tea party from winning. we had fought so hard to get rid of lugar, and then harder to get that seat for the people. not only got, zero support from the gope pence and friends, but active resistance. so we in the grass roots knew exactly who pence was.
unfortunately, Trump or the republican base wasn’t paying much attention to us tea party hobbits back then.