The former vice president is back to focusing on his policy shop.
Mike Pence led the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, a conservative think tank, after his first early failed congressional bids. Now, his new nonprofit shop is that same vehicle. | John Locher/APHours after announcing he wouldn’t endorse Donald Trump for president, Mike Pence huddled privately in Dallas with Texas moneymen such as former presidential candidate Ross Perot and the billionaire conservative Harlan Crow.
“A lot of people like to think of him as the little sycophant in the corner, and the one example everybody still goes back to is when he watches Trumpof a water bottle and he does the same thing,” said Mike Murphy, Pence’s longtime friend and a former Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives. “But there is a solid core to Pence that is inviolable, and he allows the edges to be kind of smoothed, but at the core there are certain lines he won’t allow to be crossed.
Pence’s decision is now the stuff of Democratic and Never Trump fanfic-turned-reality. Both the Biden campaign and Republican Voters Against Trump are circulatingBut Pence’s move is also the latest sign that Trumpism is now permanently and irrevocably divorced from its initial marriage of convenience with the Reaganism he has long espoused, and that he promoted whenever possible during Trump’s first term in office.
It’s also telling of Pence’s carefully drawn path back toward relevancy as a guardian of the Reaganism he has long espoused: Last month, he announced a $20 million blueprint for his Advancing American Freedom nonprofit aimed at shaping a conservatism that “bigger than any one moment, election, or person.”
“He’s trying to push foreign aid and foreign policy, which is kind of different to that MAGA lane,” said a Pence ally granted anonymity to speak freely. “I get why he’s doing it. But he’s doing it in a very low-key Mike Pence way.” A Pence spokesperson denied any hard feelings, pointing out the Koch endorsement came weeks after the candidate dropped out of the race. Pence surrogates had
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