{"id":86534,"date":"2020-10-10T19:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mike-pence-is-the-republican-partys-big-hope-for-2024\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T19:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T16:12:19","slug":"mike-pence-is-the-republican-partys-big-hope-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mike-pence-is-the-republican-partys-big-hope-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mike Pence is the Republican party’s big hope for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mike Pence is the Republican party’s big hope for 2024<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Wednesday night\u2019s kickoff episode of the Mike and \u2019Mala show wasn\u2019t just the soon-to-be-forgotten sole vice presidential debate of 2020. No, it was something far more important: the first exhibition game<\/a> of Campaign 2024.<\/p>\n

Whether Donald Trump wins or loses on Nov. 3, Pence is in a stronger position than anybody to be the GOP\u2019s next batter up. He\u2019s got name recognition, all the experience you could ask for, and he\u2019s battle-tested. He might be the only figure who can unite the Normies and the Trumpies \u2014both the boring, staid suburbanites in khakis who vote GOP because they like normal stuff like low taxes, light regulation and cultural conservatism; and the in-your-face guys who ride Harleys with MAGA flags flying and love Trump mainly because he owns the libs and makes fun of Jim Acosta.<\/p>\n

As for Kamala Harris, I don\u2019t know what the actuarial tables say but when I ask my Magic 8 Ball whether she will become president by 2024, it comes back with \u201cSigns point to yes.\u201d Even if Hidin\u2019 Joe Biden somehow makes it to 2024 intact, he\u2019ll be too tired to run for a second term. Hell, these days he\u2019s too tired to make it to lunch: He typically calls a lid on the day at 9 a.m., and presumably spends the morning getting EKGs. So Harris-Pence isn\u2019t just the undercard for 2020, it\u2019s how the 2024 race is shaping up to be.<\/p>\n

And both sides are eager to make that happ<\/a>en. Harris, who was such a political superstar back in the forgotten era known as \u201c2019\u201d that when she dropped out of the race in December, 97 percent<\/span><\/a> of Democrats wanted someone other than her to be the party nominee, is today the toast of DonkeyTown. She\u2019s \u201chistoric\u201d! She checks so many of the identity-politics boxes that Dems mistake for qualifications that the party has to pretend she\u2019s a talented politician, when anyone who watched the Democratic debates just last year knows she\u2019s one of those looks-better-on-paper candidates.<\/p>\n

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Ever since Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration, Mike Pence has been the loyalist of vice presidents \u2014 never putting a foot wrong.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As for Pence, he was such a marvelous debater on Wednesday, when he properly ignored all questions and instead calmly disassembled Harris like a biology student dissecting a frog, that he reminded everyone he used to argue with people for a living, back when he was a talk-radio guy. What might a GOP be like that was led by someone who could thoroughly, rationally articulate all of the party\u2019s positions without rage-tweeting or getting his facts jumbled?<\/p>\n

Pence is the answer. And unlike Mitt Romney, he doesn\u2019t carry the baggage of seeming like the consultant who just recommended your boss fire you. When Harris tried to paint Pence as an extremist on abortion, he turned the issue around completely as he placidly explained that Harris is the real extremist because she supports taxpayer funding for abortion up till the moment of birth. Harris shook her head when Pence said this but she didn\u2019t rebut the charge because it\u2019s true<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s the kind of thing she\u2019d be happy to say if she was speaking to the Democrats\u2019 Hollywood donor class. When Pence pulled a Tulsi Gabbard on her and pointed out how, as San Francisco DA, she had enacted the exact opposite program of the Democratic Party\u2019s vision of justice, she didn\u2019t rebut him on that either, but retreated to a lame series<\/a> of irrelevant points she\u2019d already made earlier. She wouldn\u2019t answer the question of whether she or Biden would pack the Supreme Court, instead mangling an anecdote about how Abe Lincoln supposedly declined to nominate a Supreme Court justice in an election season. (He didn\u2019t make the nomination because the Senate was out of session<\/span><\/a> at the time.)<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 habit of smiling sarcastically and smirking in disbelief as Pence was ripping her to pieces may have excited the yass-queen bloggers, but it played horribly on TV. If Biden gets elected president, it\u2019ll be because most of the voters think he\u2019s a harmless old dude who won\u2019t shake things up too much. Should his running mate become president before 2024, her far-left program, combined with her inability to do anything but grin when challenged on it, will make her very unpopular very quickly. Mike Pence proved this week he\u2019s got what it takes to make history \u2014 by being the first candidate to beat an incumbent woman president.<\/p>\n

Kyle Smith is critic-at-large for National Review.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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