Analysis: Many who think former vice president Mike Pence was in the right about Jan. 6 are clearly still willing to back former president Donald Trump, but not vice versa. And that would appear to foreclose much of a path to victory for Pence.
But polls also suggest many Republicans have somewhat nuanced views of Jan. 6. Yes, they wrongly believe Trump was the rightful winner, but they don’t necessarily believe it was Pence’s place to overturn the result.
A February 2022 poll from Quinnipiac University asked people about Trump’s claim that Pence could have done it, while noting that Pence said he had no right to do that. Asked which of those views they aligned with more, a majority of Republicans actuallyA CNN poll from later in 2022 was less favorable to Pence. But nearly half of Republicans still sided with him over Trump — at least on this issue. It asked which of the two men was acting more “in the best interests of the country” on Jan. 6.
Still, Pence’s going down this road could force a reckoning that Republicans have avoided. This will surely be a key subject at the first debate later this month, when you’d suspect candidates will be asked whether they side with Pence or Trump. And maybe it at least helps Pence get the toehold that has thus far eluded him. It already appears to be helping at least on one front; Pence
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