I always interpreted “happening” as “him getting elected or at least nominated.” The question has a lot less weight if it’s just asking if he’s running.
He said in one of his speeches, yesterday I think, that he wants to “push America all the way back, and then some.” I think that’s very evocative, and speaks exactly to the current US conservative movement.
While it is true he lacks overt charisma I’ll just remind everyone he did manage to get elected governor of a state and ride someone else’s coattails into the VP office.
In many ways, he is running for Lord of the Flies. That’s how far out there the Reactionary Wacko party has become. Or at least how bad many of that party’s voters have become. And therefore a decent fraction of their politicians too.
Remarkably, Pence is attacking Trump more strongly than any of the other GOP candidates. In his speech yesterday he said TFG was “unfit” to be president. He says he saved the country on January 6 by refusing to obey Trump.
I’m suggesting our society has degraded to a savage tribe in the jungle worshipping a flyblown corpse. Pence is running to be leader of the tribe. So not the Lord him/itself, but the leader of the slavering tribe.
Odd that he said nothing for the first 3.95 years of Trump’s presidency, then. Neither his silence on the one hand nor, alternatively, his cluelessness on the other speaks well of him.