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He’s reportedly dumping Mike Pence and eyeing a female V.P.—if he runs at all, that is.

By Bess Levin

March 4, 2021

Mike Pence spent four years slavishly devoted to Donald Trump, save for a brief moment in which he politely declined to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In return, Trump nearly got his V.P. killed by a violent mob and then praised the people chanting, “Hang Mike Pence,” telling them, “We love you,“ and, “You’re very special.” Later Pence refused to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, aired nary a grievance re: his boss siccing a bloodthirsty horde on him, and, just this week, authored an op-ed in which he suggested that the election was stolen from Trump and that the events of January 6 were not the ex-president‘s fault.

In return, you might have expected Trump to call Pence up and say something like, “Thanks for always having my back, and hey, sorry about almost getting you lynched,” or, hell, even pretend to still find the guy politically useful. Unfortunately for Pence, he hitched his wagon to the wrong unhinged megalomaniac, and instead, his old boss’s handlers have made it known he’s out in MAGA-land.

Bloomberg reports that Trump “is telling allies he’s strongly considering another run for president in 2024—and close advisers want him to choose someone other than former vice president Mike Pence for his ticket, according to people familiar with the discussions.” According to reporters Jennifer Jacobs, Mario Parker, and Mark Niquette, Trump has privately discussed alternatives to Pence “as he takes stock of who he believes stood with him at the end of his term and who didn’t.” In other words, Pence followed the Constitution for, like, a second in between nothing short of slobbering canine loyalty and has thus been deemed a traitorous shrew. 

Whom does Team Trump have in mind to replace the Indiana politician, who is presumably praying with Mother for the ex-prez’s forgiveness? Someone they could point to as supposed evidence that he’s not an unrepentant racist with a long history of sexual harassment allegations against him, perhaps:

Trump’s advisers have discussed identifying a Black or female running mate for his next run, and three of the people familiar with the matter said Pence likely won’t be on the ticket. Two advisers have suggested Trump consider South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, the people said. Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, are hosting a fundraiser for Noem on Friday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and home in Palm Beach. The former president is planning to make an appearance, people familiar with the matter said.

And on Tuesday, Trump issued a public endorsement for South Carolina senator Tim Scott’s reelection. Scott is the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate.

As New York’s Ed Kilgore points out, though, it’s also possible that Trump could try to keep it in the family in 2024, pretending to consider Ivanka, Don Jr., and “budding politician Lara” before going with the only adult child he’s ever loved, who no doubt sees herself as the obvious choice. (Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, have reportedly been plotting to make her the first woman president for several years now, so presumably she’d see this as a logical stepping stone.)

Of course it’s not yet clear that Trump will actually run in 2024. Sure, he teased a third bid for the White House over the weekend, but he also spent years hinting he was going to run for president before he actually did so in 2016. (People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that he “likely won’t make a formal announcement until the summer of 2023.”) And if he does decide to take another stab at it, he might not receive the hero’s welcome he’s clearly hoping for; among those polled at the Conservative Political Action Conference, just 68% said they wanted him to run for president again. That’s not a great number when you’re polling a group almost exclusively made up of the most fervent conservatives in the country, though reading the room has never been Trump’s strong suit.

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COVID relief for millions will be delayed because Ron Johnson is an asshole

He’ll claim otherwise, but it’s important to make it clear that, no, it’s exclusively happening because he’s an asshole. Per The Hill:

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is forcing Senate-floor staff to read the entire Democratic coronavirus relief bill [out loud], a maneuver that could take up to 10 hours and will delay a final vote on the legislation. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) formally offered the 628-page Senate bill on Thursday after an initial vote to take up House-passed legislation, which is being used as a vehicle for the chamber’s debate.

Democrats are vowing that they will pass the coronavirus bill this week, which still needs to bounce back to the House for a second vote. Even after the Senate staff wraps up reading the bill, the chamber has to go through up to an additional 20 hours of debate and a freewheeling vote-a-rama before senators can take a final vote. Schumer trolled Johnson’s efforts on the floor on Thursday. “A few of my Republican colleagues are going to some pretty ridiculous lengths to showcase their opposition,” Schumer said. “Still, we are delighted that the Senator from Wisconsin wants to give the American people another opportunity to hear what’s in the American Rescue Plan. We Democrats want America to hear what’s in the plan. And if the senator from Wisconsin wants to read it, let everybody listen because it has overwhelming support,” he added.

On Wednesday, Johnson argued that the relief bill shouldn’t pass because when you stack things, one on top of the other, they get taller.

Texas governor pretty sure he knows who to blame for spread of COVID-19 and somehow it’s not the guy who ended the state’s mask mandate and lifted all coronavirus restrictions

North Carolina Republicans: Sexual harassment good; mildly criticizing Donald Trump, not good

Just so it’s clear where they stand. Per The Washington Post:

North Carolina’s Republican Party acted quickly last month to censure one of its most senior members, Sen. Richard Burr, for voting to convict President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. Burr’s vote was “shocking and disappointing,” said Michael Whatley, chairman of the state party. But the state GOP has shown no interest in exploring a similar action against one of its youngest elected leaders, Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a pro-Trump freshman who is accused by a number of women of sexual harassment and has a record of making false statements and baseless claims. “I don’t want to talk about that on the record,” Whatley said twice in a brief phone conversation when asked about Cawthorn. Similarly, top members of the national Republican Party have said nothing publicly about the Cawthorn case.

Cawthorn, who at 25 years old is the youngest member of Congress, was the subject of a recent investigation by The Washington Post, which quoted three women on the record saying that he had acted inappropriately toward them, including one who said he forcibly kissed her in what she called an assault. More than 150 former students and graduates from Patrick Henry College, which Cawthorn attended for one semester before dropping out, signed a letter during the campaign alleging that he was a sexual “predator.”

Cawthorn has denied accusations of being a predator.

“I think hell freezes over before they say something” about Cawthorn, Bob Orr, a former justice on North Carolina’s Supreme Court and a resident of Cawthorn’s 11th District, told the Post. “He’s a Trump ally. He’s a darling of CPAC. And so they are in no way, shape, or form going to be saying or doing things that are potentially detrimental to Cawthorn or anybody else that supports Trump.”

Republican senator demands Biden apologize to Neanderthals, who’ve been extinct for thousands of years

Blackburn, of course, is not alone in her faux-outrage:

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