Mike Pence returns with an op-ed endorsing the most important issue to Republicans: Vote suppression
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On Jan. 6, a mob of Trump supporters not only stood around the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” they erected a gallows to show how eager they were to put his pale neck in a noose. Then those same Trump supporters smashed their way into the Capitol andMike Pence returns with an op-ed endorsing the most important issue to Republicans: Vote suppression
On Jan. 6, a mob of Trump supporters not only stood around the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” they erected a gallows to show how eager they were to put his pale neck in a noose. Then those same Trump supporters smashed their way into the Capitol and went hunting for Pence, missing him by only feet thanks to the quick thinking of a Black police officer. All of this came minutes after Donald Trump stood outside and centered the crowd’s anger at Pence for not “doing the right thing” by refusing to recognize the results of the 2020 election. Among the many facts that became clear during the Senate trial, one that was underlined again and again was that Donald Trump tried to murder Mike Pence. At the same time this was going on, Trump locked Pence’s chief of staff out of the White House and when it came to sending in the National Guard, it was actually Pence that gave that go ahead, after Trump failed to act. Again and again, before Jan. 6, at the rally before the assault, during the insurrection, and in the long hours in which no help came to beleaguered Capitol Police, Trump displayed his absolute disdain for the partner he never wanted in the first place. With the insurrectionists out of the Capitol, and Trump packed off to Mar-a-Lago, Pence might have become a voice offering an alternative. Instead he’s cementing himself as the very model of a modern Republican—with an op-ed endorsing how his party can only survive by vote suppression. Read more