The former veep is polling in the single digits. He’s alienated just about everyone, so it’s hard to see how he could improve.
“He’s only gonna get the vote from his family, and I’m not even sure if they like him.”It went on and on like that across four different focus groups. Of the 34 Republicans who participated, I heard only four people say they’dPence for president — and two of them immediately started talking themselves out of it after indicating interest.
As Coppins sees it, Pence’s polling numbers reflect a “following” that’s basically low-information voters who are tired of Trump and can’t think of any other names: What to make of that 6 to 7 percent he gets in the primary polls? “I imagine there’s a cohort of GOP voters who are not particularly engaged who don’t want Trump again, and Pence is the only other name they really know,” [political consultant Sarah Longwell] speculated. That, or “they’re all from Indiana,” the state where Pence served as governor. A second Republican pollster, who requested anonymity to offer his candid view, told me, “Seven percent is a weak showing for the immediate former VP.
Balance this tepid-at-best support with the anger directed at Pence from two sides of the Republican Party. MAGA folk mostly agree with
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