Pence was put in charge of the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic that, beyond its deadly consequences for people, upended the president’s reelection campaign.
In 2016, Pence’s deep roots in the Christian conservative wing of the party’s base helped “authenticate” Trump to a group that liked what he promised but had not had a relationship with him, said Marjorie Dannenfelser, head of the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List.
“I think many people believe that Mike Pence persuaded them, particularly evangelicals and conservatives,” said Christopher Devine, a political scientist at the University of Dayton whose bookwas published this spring. “But the reality is, I think, a lot of them are fooling themselves or fooling others – or some combination of the two.”
The latter assignment was “classic Trump,” said Joel Goldstein, a vice presidential expert at the Saint Louis University School of Law. If the coronavirus is badly handled, Pence gets blamed, he said. If all goes well, Trump gets the credit. But as the Trump administration became eager for the economy to recover, Pence embraced an optimistic view that hasn't been borne out by the path the pandemic took in recent months.
A replica of the 15-star, 15-stripe, “Star-Spangled Banner” that Key wrote about will fly at the national monument as Pence speaks in front of an audience of mostly military families.
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