allow me to thank you for the privilege
of serving as your vice president
and i hope mike pence comes through for
us i have to tell you
of course if he doesn't come through i
won't like him quite as much
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essentially from the beginning of his
time as
donald trump's vice presidential nominee
his running mate
he was kind of an ambassador to the more
establishment
republican party he was a career
politician his role was to put a
smoother face sometimes
on donald trump and trumpism and then
that went throughout
donald trump's presidency right up into
election night where if you'll remember
donald trump
stood there and launched this invective
this harsh rhetoric
this is a major fraud in our nation mike
pence stood up there and he didn't say
that he said
the right to vote has been at the center
of our democracy since the founding of
this nation we're going to protect the
integrity of the vote
again he smoothed over the rough edges
of donald trump
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as it got closer and closer to the day
that
joe biden's election victory would be
certified by congress it became as that
date approached
the focus of donald trump and his
supporters because they believed
that mike pence could step in and throw
out the votes and i hope mike is going
to do the right thing i hope so
i hope so because if mike pence does the
right thing
we win the election uh on january 6 he
proceeded to
uh simply serve his ceremonial role as
those votes
were being counted and that made him
a traitor in the eyes of many republican
uh rank-and-files who support donald
trump and it appears
in at least in the eyes of donald trump
himself
mike pence was clearly the target of
some of these
rioters who entered the capitol they
were chanting his name they were calling
for him to be
hung they were saying he needed to be
held accountable and they were citing
donald trump's tweet
roughly the same time blaming mike pence
for not doing the right thing and
throwing out these electoral
ballots vice president pence was still
in the room near the senate chamber it
was not
until 2 26 that he was evacuated
to a secure location so what democratic
impeachment managers are trying to do
here is they're citing mike pence as an
example
of a public official whose very life was
being threatened
whose family's life was being threatened
by these insurrectionists
in a way they're like they're they're
painting this is more than just
a partisan witch hunt
you