Mike Pence post vice presidency

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Mike Pence is returning to his radio roots after a 22-year hiatus from the airwaves.

The former vice president will launch a podcast in the coming months hosted by the Young America’s Foundation, a conservative youth organization dating back to the1960s. Pence will join YAF as the group’s first Ronald Reagan presidential scholar, and is expected to become a regular member of its campus lecture circuit once it is safe to resume such events, which have been halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

On Thursday, Pence announced that he would join the Heritage Foundation, another conservative institution, as a distinguished visiting fellow focused on public policy.

Hosting a podcast won’t be an entirely new venture for Pence, who is 61. A former Indiana governor, he spent a decade prior to his 2000 election to Congress as a prominent conservative radio personality in the Midwest — a trade he then used to launch his political career. His YAF-sponsored show, which will be aimed at a younger audience than the listeners he drew years ago on “The Mike Pence Show,” is similar to an arrangement the conservative youth group had with Reagan, then the governor of California, when YAF served as a sponsor for his daily radio commentary in the mid-1970s.

Pence is also said to be eyeing a potential book deal, and has plans to create a new fundraising committee that would serve as his main conduit to Republican donors as he works to boost House and Senate GOP candidates in the 2022 midterm elections and weighs a future presidential bid of his own in 2024.

The former vice president, who recently returned from a post-White House vacation to the Caribbean island of Saint Croix, is currently living in the Washington suburbs with plans to keep a presence in both D.C. and his home state of Indiana moving forward.

Of course! Everbody has to have a podcast!

Interesting.

What would you do if you were in Pence's shoes?

If Trump gets through impeachment without being reprimanded (which seems likely), and is NOT barred from running for office again then Trump might run for POTUS again in 2024. And conceivably Pence could be his running mate again.

Didn't this guy actually have a talk show in the 90s? Sounds like he's making a comeback.

I'm not sure how to process this. I don't like the guy. In some ways he's worse than Trump (His political views are pretty damn extreme) and in some ways better (he appears to be less of an overt borderline sociopath).

Didn't this guy actually have a talk show in the 90s? Sounds like he's making a comeback.

I'm not sure how to process this. I don't like the guy. In some ways he's worse than Trump (His political views are pretty damn extreme) and in some ways better (he appears to be less of an overt borderline sociopath).