• Mike Pence is officially running for president. Why?
• This is why Trump selected him as a VP candidate—to give the 2016 Republican ticket credibility among the kinds of free-market evangelicals once thought of as the GOP “base.” But the idea of someone as fiscally and socially conservative as Pence winning a national election in 2024, or really at any point in modern U.S. history, is far-fetched, especially when you consider that conservative figures like George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan were at least considered personally charming by many middle-of-the-road voters.

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