Kasich recently confirmed that the Trump campaign offered to make him the most powerful VP in history, in charge of both domestic and foreign policy.
Did Pence receive a similar offer? Has he ever been asked?
(Apologies if this has been asked and answered elsewhere…too many Trump threads to sift through)
From the linked article:
So Pence would have got a far better offer.
A genuine offer rather than some pig in a poke thought bubble floated between staffers and ancillaries.
I’ve got absolutely no idea as to the specifics of the offer.
Pence isn’t worth nearly as much as Kasich would have been, though. Kasich is a popular governor of a swing state, with some level of national name recognition after his presidential bid. Pence is a no-name mediocrity from a pretty red state.
We may never know, but it’s clear Pence would have joined the ticket for a much lower price than Kasich would have, if Kasich in fact had any price at all that he would have accepted.
The impression one gets of Pence is that he’s like Homer Simpson begging for his job back from Mr. Burns. He is a doting yes-man to Trump who, one senses, feels like he just jumped from “no chance of being President ever” to “all I have to do is have us win this and then I’m VP to the oldest man ever elected to the office.” He’s proposing to skip a thousand places in line.
I don’t think Trump had to offer him much at all.
Those that know for sure aren’t talking. My guess is that it’s essentially the same deal. Trump has no interest in actually doing anything, he has no interest in knowing anything, he has no interest in learning anything, and no interest in working. He wants to feed his insatiable ego in the largest way possible. Once accomplished, he’d be happy being a figurehead and let someone else do the actual work.
Pence probably got the same deal, but like most Trump deals, it will be reneged on whenever Trump wants to be involved in something.
He could have made the same offer simply because Trump doesn’t want to do the hard stuff but Pence certainly wasn’t in the same bargaining position as Kasich. First and foremost, Kasich would be giving up his governorship mid-term while Pence was heading into a tight election.
This pretty much nails it.
Trump’s promises are meant to be broken; it’s his way of doing business. Kasich was smart and proud enough to know Trump was full of it and he’d be relegated to the sidelines the instant Trump wanted to do something, or disagreed with Kasich, or just had a bad day. Pence doesn’t have the same scruples or moral courage or, perhaps, understanding of what the hell he’s up against.