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Jackie Calmes: If the GOP candidates won't take on Trump, why run at all?

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks about the recent federal indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump while delivering remarks June 10, 2023, in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Much like most of the other Republicans supposedly taking on Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination, his former veep, Mike Pence, made a show on Saturday of lamenting Trump's "unprecedented indictment by a Justice Department run by the current president of the United States and potential political rival."

As if prosecuting Trump on its face is a bad thing, and Joe Biden the bad guy.

Well, here are a couple other things that are unprecedented:

Trump's conduct, for one. After he left office, still refusing to concede defeat, he willfully retained hundreds of classified documents,

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