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In one June meeting, an aide to the vice president, Marty Obst, said Mr. Pences team wanted to be prepared to run in case there was an opening in 2020, according to a Republican briefed on the meeting. Nick Ayers, the vice presidents new chief of staff, has signaled to major Republican donors that Mr. Pence wants to be ready, the article reported.

The article quoted Mr. Obst denying that he and Mr. Ayers had made any private insinuations. He also called suggestions that the vice president was positioning himself for 2020 beyond ridiculous.

Mr. Pence has set up a political fund-raising organization, Great America Committee, and has hosted key figures at the vice presidents mansion, like Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and representatives of Charles G. and David H. Koch, the billionaire conservative financiers. Last month, the vice president hosted Kelly and Joe Craft, coal barons from Kentucky.

A top White House official said Sunday that there would be no reason for the vice president to prepare his own White House bid because Mr. Trump planned to run. The president says privately and publicly often, George, that hell be there for seven and a half more years. So he plans on being a two-term president, Kellyanne Conway, the presidents counselor, told George Stephanopoulos on This Week on ABC. It is absolutely true that the vice president is getting ready for 2020, for re-election as vice president.

Mr. Stephanopoulos asked if there was any concern that Mr. Pence was running a shadow campaign. Zero concern, Ms. Conway said. That is complete fiction. That is complete fabrication. And I know that his advisers who had comments attributed to them have pushed back strongly, as has the vice president. And as am I right now unequivocally.

She added: Vice President Pence is a very loyal, very dutiful, but also incredibly effective vice president, and active vice president, with this president.

Other Republicans who have been making trips to key states or otherwise introducing themselves to donors that have raised speculation about their plans include Gov. John Kasich of Ohio and Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Ben Sasse of Nebraska. Nikki R. Haley, the ambassador to the United Nations, put her longtime pollster on the payroll and has become better acquainted with New York financiers.

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