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Today, Explained

It’s time to talk about Mike Pence

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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President Trump is battling Covid-19 and the vice-presidential debate is days away. McKay Coppins from the Atlantic explains the man waiting in the wings. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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risk of loss. After finding out the president of the United States had tested positive for the

1:21.0

coronavirus at the end of last week, we had a weekend of conflicting information on his condition,

1:26.8

some videos of him looking under the weather, a photo op of him signing his name like a big boy,

1:31.7

a ride around the block that put some secret service members at risk, and now he's heading back

1:36.1

to the White House to potentially put even more people at risk. Never has the Trump presidency

1:41.8

been in a greater state of flux, and that is really saying something. So with the Vice

1:47.9

Presidential debate set for Wednesday, we thought it'd be a good time to talk about President Trump's

1:52.1

very Christian shadow, Vice President Michael Richard Pence. McCay Coppins, you've written about

1:58.0

Pence a number of times for the Atlantic. What's he been saying about the president over the past few

2:02.2

days? Publicly, he's said the things you might expect, you know, that he's praying for the president

2:08.0

in the first lady that the American people are rooting for him. He's kind of played the traditional

2:14.3

role of the Vice President as kind of the cheerleader for the president and the supporter of his.

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