Tension between an American President and his Vice Present isn’t unheard of…
It wasn’t there with President Obama and Vice President Biden…
But it WAS present between Bush II and Cheney….
Maybe it’s a Republican thing?
On the surface, Trump and Pence insist they have a great relationship and are working closer than ever to win reelection in 2020. (They’ve consistently beaten back rumors that former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is in the running to replace Pence on the 2020 ticket.)
But behind the scenes, tensions have been mounting among Trump, Pence and their top advisers ever since the GOP’s resounding losses in the 2018 midterms. In the weeks afterward, Trump asked aides about replacing Pence on the ticket, and he asked again for their thoughts on Pence during his August vacation at his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., according to Trump advisers who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about private discussions with the president.
Current and former Trump and Pence advisers interviewed for this story, as well as my forthcoming biography of Pence, “Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House,” consistently described a personal relationship between Trump and Pence that is warm but somewhat aloof. Pence has a lane that he sticks to in the White House — conservative social policy — but he is not considered to be as influential as people like Jared Kushner or Stephen Miller.
But the relationship between their political teams has soured greatly in the past year, according to a dozen Trump and Pence aides and Republican advisers familiar with the dynamic. In particular, rumors that Kushner and Ivanka Trump wanted to consider replacements for Pence — specifically trying to find a woman running mate to help win back the suburbs in 2020 — have worried the vice president’s camp, according to Trump and Pence campaign advisers who spoke on background for this story…..
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There have been so few recent Democratic presidents that you’d have to go back to 1965-69 [LBJ-HHH] to find any publicly-known tension between a Democratic President and his VP.
I don’t remember any tension between not only Obama & Biden, but also between Clinton & Gore or Carter & Mondale. And several of those pairs had been rivals in the primaries
It was reported that Clinton and Gore rarely spoke after (and to this day) after the Lewinsky scandal.
Obama publicly rolled his eyes at Biden after Biden made some quip about Justice Roberts delivering the oath wrong and then was upset when he was caught using profanity to hail Obamacare.
It’s hard to imagine a bigger today than Mike Pence. Of course Trump being the complete asshole he is still doesn’t think ole Mikey is subservient enough and thinks he can get someone with less of a spine to take the job.
Considering the current state of the GOP he probably isn’t wrong.
Bigger toady than Mike Pence