Edward Luce: Mike Pence Hasn’t Spoken Against Trump After He Endangered His Life

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LUCE: “So Mike Pence is in the Capitol, there are people with Pence neck-shaped nooses storming that capitol. He is calling the president, to whom he has been more loyal than any in the history of loyalty that I can think of and they’re not responding, for hours, they’re not responding. I think it ought to be said in the context of what we were discussing earlier, this remains Trump’s party, and that the January 6th account that he has remains the official line. That Mike Pence hasn’t spoken out. He hasn’t been down to Mar-a-Lago. But he hasn’t spoken out against Trump."
BRZEZINKI: "Yeah."
LUCE: "In spite of the fact that Trump endangered his life, in spite of the fact that after four years of almost sort of a parody of loyalty towards Trump, that he’s been left out to dry I think Pence has got two books in the pipeline. He’s got 2024 presidential aspirations. And the fact that Pence thinks that speaking against Trump would endanger those, not just the presidential aspirations, but perhaps his book sales, which are famously --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Right."
LUCE: "-- done in bulk on the right. That, that is a measure — that’s Pence’s measure of the fact that the party still buys Trump’s line on January the 6th and about this being a stolen election. That remains where the Republican Party is.”