Mike Pence has the same long odds as much of the rest of the GOP presidential primary field. Yet one thing sets the former vice president apart from all the others: His candidacy has a point other than winning.
To be sure, consolidating the vote behind one not-Trump contender remains paramount, and if Pence ends up pulling difference-making votes away from, say, Gov. Ron DeSantis or even Sen. Tim Scott , it will not have been worth the price. For now, as Varad Mehta explained in the Washington Examiner magazine back in June, if DeSantis implodes, it won’t be Pence’s fault.Some presidential candidates have a reason to run but not a purpose.
Well said. So that’s his reason for running — but what about his purpose? The easiest way to explain that is to give an example of how Pence shows Republicans and conservatives how to communicate with each other in a way that could prevent a slide into irreparable factionalism. But DeSantis is running for president and therefore has a target on his back. Former Republican congressman Will Hurd, who took a principled stand against the Trumpification of the party and retired from his House seat, gave a disappointingly bad faith response to the controversy: “Real leadership,” Hurd told NBC, “would have stepped up and said, ‘Hey, there is no upside to slavery. Slavery was not a jobs program.
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