The quiet ambition of Mike Pence
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is Colby. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Stephanie McCrements from the Washington Post. |
| 0:13.4 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm routine powers. |
| 0:18.9 | It's Wednesday, August 26th. |
| 0:23.5 | Today the subservience of Mike Pence, the new treatment that Trump is calling a breakthrough, |
| 0:29.6 | and what the virus can teach us about climate change. |
| 0:36.1 | On Wednesday night, Vice President Mike Pence is going to be traveling to Fort McHenry |
| 0:40.2 | in Baltimore to give his formal acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention, |
| 0:45.1 | the virtual convention, of course. |
| 0:47.4 | And he's going to be formally accepting the nomination, meaning he's going to be on |
| 0:50.8 | the national ticket again with President Trump. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm Philip Rucker, White House Bureau Chief at the Washington Post. |
| 1:01.4 | For months now, there have been rumors in Washington and throughout Trump world that Pence |
| 1:06.8 | could be replaced on the ticket by Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador, or |
| 1:12.4 | even by South Dakota Governor Kristi Nome. |
| 1:15.7 | But this is Pence's moment. |
| 1:17.2 | It's Pence's spot on the ticket, and his speech in Baltimore is going to affirm that he |
| 1:22.3 | is the man, he's the number two, and he and Trump are going to be on the ballot together |
| 1:26.2 | in November. |
| 1:30.8 | And I think it's notable that when you look at the people around the president and the |
| 1:35.2 | people who have been there and who have left in the last four years, you could probably |
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