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on Saturday night at the Gridiron Dinner, the Washington institution where politicians and journalists try to entertain their colleagues in a less-than-serious way.
While Pence might not have convinced the audience that he was the Johnny Depp or Justin Bieber of politics, his one-liner might have been an effective foreshadowing of the decidedly non-humorous news he made as he concluded his remarks. After several months over which Pence and the other Republican presidential hopefuls have been tip-toeing around their decidedly mild criticisms of Donald Trump, Pence went straight at his former boss.
But the usually mild-mannered Pence, who has frequently been lampooned for his obsequiousness toward the man under whom he served for four years, not only took on Trump unsparingly, but did so on what may be the most polarizing topic in American politics. No shortage of Republican leaders originally condemned Trump for his conduct on January 6, but almost all of them backed down fairly quickly.
The more plausible candidates — Nikki Haley and Tim Scott of South Carolina, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and most notably, Florida governor Ron DeSantis — utter Trump’s name only when under extreme duress.
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