The NY Times takes a look at President’s Trump’s …Vice President Mike Pence who seems to be invisible right now
For four years, Vice President Mike Pence has walked the Trump tightrope more successfully than anyone else in the president’s orbit, staying on his good side without having to echo his most incendiary language.
But in the final weeks of Mr. Pence’s term, his relationship with President Trump faces what may be its toughest challenge yet.
Mr. Pence must now balance his loyalty to an enraged president making baseless claims of voter fraud against his own political future and reputation. He also has to deal with how Mr. Trump’s talk of running for president again in 2024 could leave him with no lane to run in. It would be difficult for Mr. Pence to even start raising money if the president is floating his own name.
So far, Mr. Pence appears to be handling the pressure much as he has over the past four years: appearing to be unflinchingly loyal while also steering clear of engaging in Mr. Trump’s pressure campaigns.
In the last few months of Mr. Pence’s vice presidency, his advisers want him focused on leading the coronavirus task force and helping the two Georgia Republicans facing runoffs that will determine whether the party maintains its Senate majority.
Those advisers said they would prefer that the vice president steer clear of the Trump campaign’s legal fights over the election, and so far, Mr. Pence has been careful not to repeat Mr. Trump’s most baseless attacks on the electoral system….
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Another Republican bootlicker who tied his fortunes to the Trump train.
As to his “future”
I don’t really care–do u?
Right now, I see very little national political future for Pence.
Guess he can go back to Indiana and run for something .
I would agree Jack…
He’s just toooooo low key….
And behind the Trump noise he’s about invisible.
Losing incumbent VP’s:
2020 Mike Pence
1992 Dan Quayle
1980 Walter Mondale
[1976 Nelson Rockefeller didn’t run]
1932 Charles Curtis
1912 James Sherman (died a week before Election Day)
1840 Richard Johnson
Not much future for sitting VP’s failing to win re-election to the Vice Presidency, although former Vice President Richard Nixon (losing for Pres. 1960) and losing v.p. candidate FDR (1920) were heard from again.
Losing…..
Now Biden and Bush I ?
Kamala ?
More generally, losing VP candidates (in and out of office) since 1900:
The only ones to make much of a mark since losing were FDR (lost VP, 1920), Frank Knox (lost VP, 1936) and Earl Warren (lost VP, 1948). Knox and Warren were later appointed, rather than elected, to important positions by Presidents who defeated them (n the general election of 1936 and the GOP presidential nomination of 1952).
I hardly put Mike Pence in the same class.
VP Mike Pence
Tim Kaine
Paul Ryan
Sarah Palin
John Edwards
Joe Lieberman
Jack Kemp
VP Dan Quayle
Lloyd Bentsen
Geraldine Ferraro
VP Walter Mondale
Bob Dole
Sargent Shriver
Ed Muskie
Bill Miller
Henry Cabot Lodge
Estes Kefauver
John Sparkman
Earl Warren (later Chief Justice of the United States)
John Bricker
Charles McNary
Frank Knox (later FDR’s Sec. of the Navy)
VP Charles Curtis
Joseph Robinson
Charles W. Bryan (Wm J. Bryan’s brother)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
ex-VP Charles Fairbanks
VP James Sherman (R) and Hiram Johnson (Prog.)
John Kern
Henry Davis
ex-VP Adlai Stevenson