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Mike Pence should brush up on his Hamlet. Sometimes silence or yawning indifference works better than bat-shit outrage in the face of unwelcome impugning. Far wiser not to protest too much.

There are two unforgivable sins for a vice president, one often leading to the other. Thou shalt not evince even the slightest disloyalty to the boss or worse still be seen to be manoeuvringto take his place in the Oval Office. Indulge in either dance at your peril.

The no-daylight-between-us rule is not new. Just before the 2008 election, Barack Obama hit the roof when his running mate, Joe Biden, mused aloud if he had what it would take to manage a major international crisis. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy, he said. A rift was opened that took weeks to heal.

In Trumpworld, only iron-clad, even over-egged, claims of fealty satisfy the boss. We saw this at that bizarre cabinet meeting in June when Trump went around the table asking everyone to pay him gushing tribute. Pence went first. The greatest privilege of my life is to serve as vice president to a president whos keeping his word to the American people, he fawned.

Pence needed nothold back. Shortly before, and just after, Trump fired FBI DirectorJames Comey, he had created a political action committee for himself, The Great America Committee, to raise funds and build relationships with GOP donors. For a serving veep to take such a step so soon in a nascent administration was unheard of and startling. No Vice President in modern history had their own PAC less than sixmonths into the Presidents first term. Hmmmm, tweeted Roger Stone, the pro-Trump operative and dark lord of Washington intrigue.

In other ways, Pence has not been treading as carefully as he might. It perhaps wasnt entirely smart to accept an invitation to headline Senator Jodi Ernsts annual pig roast in Iowa earlier this summer. Iowa, you notice, a state to which any politician with presidential ambitions must travel. Far as I know, he hasnt been to New Hampshire lately, but I dare say it wont be long.

Then came last weekends TheNew York Times report that Pence is among a handful of Republicans already positioning themselvesto make a grab for the brass ring in 2020 should Trump not seek a second term. It was pretty specific, for instance, naming two aides in his office who, it purported, have been openly chatting to party folk about Pence for President. Others said to be similarly preoccupied are Senators Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, as well as John Kasich, Governor of Ohioand standard-bearer of the anti-Trump movement within the party.

Pence wentover-board bonkers, calling the article, disgraceful and offensive to me, my family and our entire team. Its allegations, he went on, are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this administration. Whatever fake news may come our way, my entire team will continue to focus all our efforts to advance the Presidents agenda and see him re-elected in 2020. Any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd.

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Is that so? Not grasping that so ferocious a reaction would only deepen the perception that the scenario as depicted looks entirely believableseems like a lapse on the part of Pence. But who is really the dumb party here? Maybe not Pence either, because he wasnt speaking to us. His eruption of wounded indignation was meant for an audience of one: Trump.

Pence is in a predicament. Keeping Number One sweet remains paramount. The natural order of things are clear: a veep does not pine for the presidency until well into a second term. Yet, he can be forgiven for allowing his mind to wander. Even if Trump completes his first term, it isnt unthinkable that he might balkat running for a second. If his numbers are awful come 2019, he may conclude that it will be out of his reach. Or he may just have had a enough by then. Trump Tower and the golf linkswill suddenly have irresistible appeal.

All of which means other minds have been wandering too. President Mike Pence. Most Republicans would expect him to remain faithful to much of the Trump agenda but without all the attending drama and distraction. That could work. Yet precisely because Pence is so tightly bound to Trump, he may not be the best person for the top of their ticket come 2020, especially if, by then, the Donald has exited with a whimper or been forced out by the tarnish of scandal.

Democrats are torn too. Any scenario that involves the humiliation of Trump would offer short-term gratification, but, in the longer term, the thought of a disciplined version of Trump in the Oval Office gives them the chills. Not only would he be likely to honour most of Trumps American First priorities, for instance on immigration and trade, any doubt about the social conservatism of the commander-in-chief would be removed. As Governor of Indiana, he liked to say that he was a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order, and he meant it.

But the man himself is telling us to relax. There will be no Pence-for-Prez campaign until 2024. Honestly. To which we may want to borrow from Roger Stone.Hmmm.

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With all this casual talk about a possible nuclear war between the United States and North Korea, it's cool to have some levity. And it's especially cool when that levity comes in the form of a song that conveys all of your feelings about the state of the executive office right now. A Desperate Sexy Song For Mike Pence, a satirical music video made byDominique Salerno and Laura Hankin, is just what America needs.

The music video features Hankin and Salerno in bathrobes singing lustily about Vice President Mike Pence well, kind of.

Boy we've been lying awake all night terrified, the song starts. The women go on to sing that they'recraving a man who understands a brief and who calls his wife Mother.'

And then the chorus kicks in: Mike Pence, would you save us from nuclear war?

No, this isn't an earnest call for Pence to take over as president. Rather, the song voices a thought process many of us have had since the 2016 presidential election: President Donald Trump seems existentially risky to have as a president, so we might all feel physically safer if he were impeached and Pence took over, but Pence, well, kind of sucks for rights and freedoms of all Americans.

We'd regularly debate which horrifying man would be better as president, and freak out, and rehash the same arguments over and over again, Hankin and Salerno tell Elite Daily in an email. So we figured we might as well channel all our terror into a Britney Spears-esque video.

Or, asthey sing, Mike Pence, you'd be awful for ladies and gays but you might not usher in the end of days.

(You should really watch to the end of the video for the savageconclusion.)

Nuclear panic is high as Trump said North Korea would face fire andfury like the world has never seen if the country threatens the U.S. This came on the heels of reportsthat North Korea has missile-ready nuclear weapons.

With Trump, EVERYTHING seems wildly, scarily unpredictable. With him and Kim Jong-un, you're looking at two people who don't act according to logic, so anything could happen, Hankin and Salerno tell me in their email. At least Pence most likely wouldn't conduct foreign policy through tweeting. The Tweet that launched a thousand missiles is not what we want.

Although they are of course concerned about the liberty effects of a Pence presidency, at least you can overturn laws. You can't un-nuclear bomb a city.

And there you have it.

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Alexandra is the Senior News Editor at Elite Daily. She previously worked at HuffPost and has been published in Vox, Glamour, Refinery 29, Mic, Cosmopolitan and Quartz. Find her on Twitter / FB @asvokos and at tinyletter.com/asvokos

Alexandra is the Senior News Editor at Elite Daily. She previously worked at HuffPost and has been published in Vox, Glamour, Refinery 29, Mic, Cosmopolitan and Quartz. Find her on Twitter / FB @asvokos and at tinyletter.com/asvokos

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Months after he left office to become Trump's running mate, former Indiana governor Mike Pence is finally releasing emails from his personal AOL accounts. This sort of thing would normally be reserved for only the wonkiest of public records wonks, but the Trump campaign spent a great deal of time deriding Hillary Clinton for using a personal email account to handle official State Department email.

It's slightly more of a big deal, thanks to Pence's efforts to keep these emails from becoming public. He went to court late last year to protect the content of certain emails from being released. Pence's lawyer actually argued the court had no business telling the governor's office what can and can't be redacted. So much for the idea of checks and balances.

As the result of multiple requests and multiple lawsuits, Pence is now releasing most of what [his lawyer says] is contained in his AOL accounts.

Pence attorney Karoline Jackson said in a recent email to the state's legal counsel that a complete electronic production of state records" from Pence's time as governor had been delivered to the state as of June 23.

The office of Pence's successor, Gov. Eric Holcomb, said the records consist of state-related emails from two AOL accounts Pence used as governor.

"Our office is now in the process of reviewing the records, and we anticipate being in a position to provide copies of records that are responsive to pending (public record) requests soon," Holcomb spokeswoman Stephanie Wilson said.

So, according to his own spokespeople, Pence will finally be complying with the state's public records law. Not that he didn't try to be a dick about it.

Previously, Pence had only provided some of his AOL emails to the state, and those he did provide were in paper form, making them difficult to search.

Fortunately for those requesting the emails, the new, full batch will come in electronic form, which will greatly assist them in finding the contents they're interested in. According to the WHAS11 report, there are more than 50 open records requests targeting Pence's AOL emails.

While this doc dump will result in far more transparency than Pence is used to, there are still some concerns about what's being withheld. Rather than have his former office review the emails before turning them over to requesters, Pence had his private lawyer take a look at them instead. That's not really the way things are supposed to work for public officials. This will make redactions and withheld documents more difficult to challenge, as there's another layer -- a non-government layer -- of vetting separating requesters from their requested documents.

There's also a good chance whatever's being looked at is incomplete. Public officials who use private email for official business are supposed to forward all work-related emails to government servers for storage. At this point, there appears to be no indication Pence has done that. Instead, a privately-employed lawyer has been picking through what's left in two private AOL accounts and everyone involved is claiming, without supporting evidence, they're living up to the letter and spirit of Indiana's open records laws.

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WASHINGTON ( The Borowitz Report )Vice-President Mike Pence is seriously considering running for President in 1820, various sources confirmed over the weekend.

According to several prominent Republican donors, Pence is already laying the groundwork for such a campaign, outlining what he believes are the most serious challenges facing 1820 America.

In a conference call with donors last week, Pence reportedly said that, as President, his No. 1 priority would be to repeal and replace the Bill of Rights.

He offered a sneak preview of a potential 1820 stump speech, in which he unleashed a brutal attack on the Bill of Rights author, James Madison, and called for the development of the telegraph key.

According to Harland Dorrinson, a donor who was on the conference call, Mike believes hes the right man to bring America into the nineteenth century, just like he did for Indiana.

But minutes after the rumors were reported, the Vice-President pushed back, putting quill to parchment to call the reports bunkum and balderdash.

America already has the perfect man to lead it in 1820, and that man is Donald J. Trump, Pence wrote.

In Washington, some political insiders also threw cold water on the Pence-in-1820 talk, arguing that the timing was not right. Pences best shot was 1620, one said.

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