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Mike Pence Wants To Have It Both Ways

This morning we get another reminder that Mike Pence is no hero.

Pence clearly doesn’t want to confront Donald Trump in any kind of sustained way in order to preserve his own political viability — and it leads to laughable contradictions.

I want to expand briefly on a point I alluded to in Morning Memo.

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