DECRYPTION – Tensions run through the party as it prepares to win a massive victory in the upcoming midterm elections.
At another Washington hotel on the same day as Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence also gave a speech that also sounded almost like a nomination paper. “Some people may choose to focus on the past, but elections are about the future”Pence told the Young America Foundation, “and it is absolutely essential, at a time when so many Americans are suffering…that we not give in to the temptation to look back».
Willingly alluding or not to Trump’s obsession with the election allegedly stolen from him in 2020, Pence’s intervention sounded like that of a potential rival in the upcoming presidential ballot. Faithful among the faithful, Pence had spent four years in the shadow of Donald Trump, embodying the most total submission to the president. His refusal to give in to pressure from Trump on the fateful day of January 6, 2021 by using his purely ceremonial function as chairman of the session…