Yahoo news for what it's worth. Path forward? Pence blew any chance forward. He has zero credibility left none. He can kiss my grits. Chance of Pence winning the GOP nomination (in the event of an actual election in 2024) is zilch.
After break with Trump, Pence charts a new path forwardAfter more than four years of unflinching loyalty, Vice President Mike Pence is increasingly troubled about the way his relationship with President Donald Trump is coming to an end amid the most tumultuous episode of their administration, according to multiple people familiar with Pence’s thinking.
There is also a deepening and widespread anger among Pence’s aides and allies at how Trump seemingly discarded his most devoted soldier over his refusal to circumvent an important constitutional duty, per these people. The president’s decision not to reach out to Pence and his family while they were sheltered inside a Capitol bunker as pro-Trump rioters breached the building has particularly rankled Pence and others in his orbit.
The vice president himself is “very upset†that Trump didn’t do more to dissuade the mob, some of whom chanted for Pence’s execution. “Lives were at stake,†a person close to Pence said.
The White House, after days of notable silence on the issue, issued a generic statement Saturday condemning “all calls to violence†against anyone in the Trump administration. The president still has not acknowledged that Pence’s security — or that of any officials in the Capitol on Wednesday — was at risk.
According to multiple people close to Trump and Pence, the two have not spoken since Wednesday morning, after the president repeatedly called for his second-in-command to break his oath and somehow attempt to intervene in the tabulation of the Electoral College votes, which Pence did not have the authority to do.
Pence has lamented to people close to both him and Trump that “he was a good partner for years,†yet the president abandoned him over...........
https://www.yahoo.com/news/break-trump-pence-charts-path-182600428.html
