Pence has been hailed as a hero by some committee witnesses for refusing to play into the ex-President’s demands to block the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. But his increasingly obvious 2024 presidential hopes suggest that an appearance before the committee in person or on video may represent too great a political risk.
After all, the great lesson of this year’s midterm election primary season is that candidates who challenge Trump over his post-election mayhem in 2020 usually lose, although one prominent exception has been in Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp, who had Pence’s support, prevailed in his primary over a Trump-backed challenger…
Schiff told CNN’s Tapper that the former vice president could provide unique perspective on the events of one of the most violent days in modern American history.
“He could plainly share a lot of very first-hand information about what it was like to be the subject of those efforts to get him to violate his constitutional duty and arrogate to himself the power to decide who won or who lost an American presidential election,” the California Democrat said.
Pence’s testimony would help the committee go deeper into the nuts and bolts of the pressure from Trump and conservative lawyers for him to block certification of the election.
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