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Former Vice President Dan Quayle said he regrets President Trump s decision not to attend President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration on Wednesday, making him the fourth president in history to snub a successor on his inauguration day. I think it’s unfortunate. I wish that he had, or was going to attend the inauguration, Quayle said, recalling his own 1989 swearing-in, alongside then-President George H. W. Bush. Tradition is not necessarily his strong suit . But my good friend, Mike Pence, will be there, my fellow Hoosier. He’ll be there, and I will be there . That’ll add a little bit of support for the inauguration that’ll take place tomorrow.
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The vice president has no obvious place in GOP electoral politics.
Updated on January 15, 2021 at 1:52 p.m. ET
Mike Pence publicly defied the president once in four years, and for that solitary show of independence, his own political future could be all but finished.
The vice president’s swift journey from acolyte to outcast was head-spinning. This is someone who would pause after mentioning Donald Trump’s name during an address so that the audience had time to clap and who would then stand silently at the lectern when it didn’t. Editing Pence’s speeches, aides would cut references to Trump when they didn’t believe there was any reason to mention him. Reviewing the changes, Pence would take his Sharpie and add Trump’s name back in, a former Trump-administration official told me.