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The Atlantic The vice president has no obvious place in GOP electoral politics. Updated on January 15, 2021 at 1:52 p.m. ET Mike Pence publicly defied the president once in four years, and for that solitary show of independence, his own political future could be all but finished. The vice president’s swift journey from acolyte to outcast was head-spinning. This is someone who would pause after mentioning Donald Trump’s name during an address so that the audience had time to clap and who would then stand silently at the lectern when it didn’t. Editing Pence’s speeches, aides would cut references to Trump when they didn’t believe there was any reason to mention him. Reviewing the changes, Pence would take his Sharpie and add Trump’s name back in, a former Trump-administration official told me. ....