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Mike Pence Is in a Trump Trap

“Pence unwittingly wrote himself out of conservative politics.”
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By some accounts, Mike Pence has wanted to be president since his college-fraternity days. Now he finally seems ready to run—but he can’t find a constituency to support him. How did the former VP get here?

But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.


Deal With the Devil

My colleague McKay Coppins, who for in 2018 and has closely followed Pence’s political career ever since, recently sat in on some focus groups consisting of Republican voters who supported Trump in both 2016 and 2020. “My goal was yesterday. Instead, he heard “some of the most withering commentary you’ve ever encountered about a politician.”

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