Former Vice President Mike Pence says he’s ready for the first public debate with his former boss, Donald Trump, should the former president have the “courage to show up,” said Pence communications adviser Devin O’Malley.

“We’re ready,” Marc Short, Pence’s senior adviser, told POLITICO. “It’s let’s-get-it-on time. We’ve been waiting for this for a while.”

[Would this taunt work against Trump? He’s certainly used it in the past himself. That alone probably provides immunity. — Ed]