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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lloyd Green

So Help Me God review: Mike Pence’s tortured bid for Republican relevance

Mike Pence speaks in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mike Pence speaks in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photograph: Ryan M Kelly/AFP/Getty Images

After four years at Donald Trump’s side, Mike Pence emerged as the Rodney Dangerfield of vice-presidents: he gets no respect. So Help Me God, his memoir, is well-written and well-paced. But it will do little to shake that impression.

At the Capitol on January 6, his boss was prepared to leave him for dead. And yet the Republican rank-and-file yawned. Among prospective presidential nominees, Pence is tied with Donald Trump Jr for third. The GOP gravitates to frontrunners. Pence, once a six-term congressman and governor of Indiana, is not that.

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