August 26, 2020

America will be introduced tonight to a man they’re not familiar with — the Donald Trump of Mike Pence’s imagination.

More than anyone else in today’s Republican Party, the vice president has mastered the ability to describe his boss in ways that both flatter him and defy realities apparent to anyone who has watched or listened to the president himself.

If skeptics were furious last night upon hearing first lady Melania Trump observe that, “Total honesty is what we as citizens deserve” — which collides with her husband’s long record of distortions and outright lies — then Pence’s speech could very well give them a nervous breakdown.

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