Since taking office, one of the only remotely normal activities Donald Trump and Mike Pence have engaged in is attending fundraisers, and because Democratic candidates are surging at the state and local level, they have their work cut out. Last month, the Los Angeles Times reported Pence would co-host a $100,000 fundraiser in Beverly Hills with […]

The 2016 election was marred by colossal flaws that prevented people from voting. But the Trump administration has consistently signaled they want even fewer people to vote. The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, led by Mike Pence, is devoting most of its time to the farcical, dog-whistle assertion that millions of votes were cast illegally, […]

Special counsel Robert Mueller is set to include false public statements that sought to mislead America on the Trump-Russia connection as part of his investigation. And if this avenue of inquiry bears out, Mike Pence has seriously compromised himself. White House staffers are lawyering up as Mueller begins to question them about their roles in […]

Donald Trump has decided that the appropriate response to Hurricane Irma, which is forecast to create massive damage in the United States, is to once again leave the White House and head out for another weekend trip. And this time he’s taking Mike Pence with him. Hurricane Irma is the first storm in recorded history […]

Vice President Mike Pence’s role in the process that led to Donald Trump firing of then-FBI Director James Comey may provide grounds for his impeachment. Appearing on MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Fordham University law professor Jed Shugerman said that the timeline of events puts Pence “in legal jeopardy.” Pence was present in the room where the […]

Mike Pence is not above transparent mendacity if it might protect him and bolster his professions of innocence in the duplicitous dealings of his boss. As the FBI investigation into possible collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign began to zero in on Pence, he did a telling about-face, going from a previous definitive statement […]

On Thursday, Mike Pence travels to Texas to meet with victims of Hurricane Harvey and “assess the damage.” That’s something Donald Trump did not do during his photo op trip to Texas on Tuesday. Trump crowed about his crowd size at what looked like a small campaign rally. And while he never met with a […]

Mike Pence is on a self-serving blitz of radio appearances this week, touting the Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Harvey. That includes promises to have federal funds ready to go for relief — something he cruelly opposed when he was in Congress. Pence had the nerve, during his several radio interviews Monday, to repeatedly refer […]

A photo showing Mike Pence discussing the federal response to Hurricane Harvey was tweeted out from his official Twitter account Sunday night. Then it disappeared. In the photo, taken in his office, the caption indicates that Pence was speaking with U.S. senators from the affected region about “@POTUS #1 priority- safety of public/1st responders.” Tweet […]

In public, where Donald Trump is watching him and tweeting, Mike Pence has played along with his media bashing. But behind closed doors, where connections are being made that could make or break a future presidential run, Pence is whispering sweet nothings into reporters’ ears. If Pence wants to challenge Trump in 2020 — or […]

Mike Pence has made it perfectly clear that he is standing with Donald Trump and his atrocious defense of Nazis and white supremacists, no matter how many others abandon him. As Trump spent much of last week railing against “both sides” — the rioting white supremacists and the anti-racists who opposed them — and defending […]

Vice President Mike Pence still hasn’t come up with a convincing answer to the question of why he defends Donald Trump’s inexcusable handing of the racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and his claim there were “very fine people” among the white supremacists who gathered. Within hours of Trump’s infamous and defining press conference last week, […]

After less than eight months in office and with events spiraling out of control on a daily basis, Donald Trump is now ramping up his re-election campaign. He is doing so in the shadow of his own vice president, Mike Pence, who has already assembled many of the essential components to run a strong and […]

Companies with billions of dollars on the line are circumventing Donald Trump and directly lobbying Mike Pence, seeking regulatory favors and influence from him as if he were in charge and at the top of the presidential ticket. The International Business Times reports that companies that have lobbied Pence “have spent tens of millions of […]

There are no good options for Mike Pence, but standing with Donald Trump after he quadrupled down on his defense of white supremacists and Nazis is certainly not a wise choice. During a very brief press availability in Chile Tuesday, Pence had the opportunity to disavow Trump’s shocking embrace of the hate groups that rioted […]

It appears that Donald Trump’s presidency is in full crisis mode after he stubbornly embraced white supremacists and Nazis, and his vice president is abruptly ending his Latin American trip to rush home, presumably to try to help deal with the damage. “We prepare to end our trip a little bit early tomorrow in Panama,” Mike […]

Vice President Mike Pence can try all he wants to deftly distance himself from the scandal-plagued Trump administration, but in the end it won’t matter because if the Trump presidency implodes, so does Pence’s political future. That’s according to Ron Klain, who served as Al Gore’s chief of staff as well as an adviser to […]

Mike Pence has suddenly and completely changed his story on the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia. Pence now claims he was “not aware” of any contacts between the campaign and Russia. But in comments to the media after Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey for refusing to publicly rule out an investigation of the […]

Mike Pence continued his attempt to cover up for Donald Trump’s refusal to directly rebuke racial terrorism committed in his name, but when challenged by a reporter on his claim that Trump had forcefully spoken out, he instead complained about “many in the media.” Trump has refused to call out the white supremacists and Nazis […]

[See update below] As white supremacists in Charlottesville continue to push their bigoted, hate-filled message with violent attacks, Democrats and progressives are speaking out loudly and clearly against this dangerous ideology and action. Sadly, in 2017, speaking out against hate appears to be a largely partisan affair, with very few Republicans offering public repudiations — […]

Mike Pence strenuously insists, despite considerable contrary evidence, that he is not running a shadow campaign to take over as president from Donald Trump. But new reporting reveals that Pence is making preparations for a high-profile trip to Latin America with an unprecedented, presidential-level entourage. The State Department has reportedly submitted a request for “nearly […]

Mike Pence’s communication team is going to have to do a lot more spinning in coming days as it becomes increasingly clear the vice president is making all the needed moves to position himself for a possible 2020 White House run if Donald Trump isn’t able to. The latest piece in that shadow campaign puzzle […]

As Mike Pence and his operatives continue to push back against the exposé of his shadow campaign to run for president in 2020, late night host Jimmy Kimmel has added to the growing mockery of the entire episode. Very few people are buying Team Pence’s claim that he isn’t making preparations for the job just […]

The Mike Pence semi-apology tour continued on cable news Monday as the vice president’s nervous communications team continued to scramble. They’re hoping to extinguish speculation that Pence has been engineering a shadow campaign for the 2020 election, under the unspoken assumption that scandal-plagued Donald Trump won’t be around to run in four years. (Hint: Pence […]

Mike Pence and his political team are going all out to deny the mounting evidence that he is in the middle of a shadow campaign to assume the presidency in 2020, if not sooner. The intensity of the push back effort is unusual, and hints at concerns from Pence that Trump could publicly attack him […]

With unusual ferocity, Mike Pence is angrily pushing back on reports that he is setting up a shadow campaign to run for president. Yet ample evidence remains that, despite his vehement protests, Pence does indeed have his eye on his boss’s seat. Pence’s press release and accompanying tweet came in response to a New York Times […]

Mike Pence tried for as long as he could to obstruct public efforts to access the private AOL email account through which he conducted official business as governor of Indiana. Now the Indy Star reports that he had finally turned over the remaining state-related emails near the end of June — almost six months after leaving the […]

The talk of impeachment has been slowly ramping up among Democratic lawmakers and around the country. But one person was there well ahead of everyone else. California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters knew from the very beginning that Donald Trump was unfit to be president, and that the Russians had a devious hand in getting him […]

Donald Trump and Mike Pence have hand-picked a group of hardcore evangelicals to participate in a Trump Cabinet Bible Study group. While it doesn’t appear that Trump himself attends the meetings, several other cabinet members do, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and Agriculture Secretary Sunny Perdue. The […]

Traveling to Eastern Europe to reassure allies about Donald Trump’s resolve to standing up to Russian aggression in the Baltic region, Vice President Mike Pence came across as suspiciously naive when he claimed he and Trump “expect” Russian behavior to change for the better. Pence’s hopeful message was met nearly simultaneously with news the Russia […]