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Tom LoBianco, a biographer of former Vice President Mike Pence, penned a glowing editorial for Vanity Fair arguing that the former running mate of Donald Trump could be the shadow front-runner of 2024. Pence’s problem, however, is that Trump would stop any efforts for him. Eliminating Trump could give Pence a pathway to the presidency, but it could also infuriate the Trump base he would need to make it through a primary election.
Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), of the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack, said Tuesday that speaking to Pence is a high priority for the committee. Pence hasn’t yet been subpoenaed, but earlier this month Thompson indicated that they’d ask the former VP to testify voluntarily.
Over the weekend, Pence aides told the New York Times that he’s leaning against cooperating because of what they described as the partisan turn the committee has taken. According to the report, Pence thinks that the votes to hold Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena is “partisan.”
Of the 300 witnesses who have spoken to the committee, only two have refused. In the case of Bannon, the short-lived White House aide attempted to declare executive privilege despite not working in the executive branch during or in the lead-up to Jan. 6. Trump adviser Peter Navarro revealed in his recent book that he conspired with Bannon to line up 100 Republican officials willing to oppose the election results. Bannon is now trying to use the contempt trial to obtain documents from President Joe Biden’s administration.
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