Margaret Carlson, Columnist

Pity Mike Pence, But He Has a Path to Redemption

Trump is acting like his running mate is dispensable. Oops.

October 10, 2016 at 4:47 PM UTC

Margaret Carlson was a White House correspondent for Time, a weekly panelist on CNN’s “Capital Gang” and an editor at the New Republic.

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The big unasked question on the debate stage last night was: “Where’s Mike Pence?”

Since the video of Donald Trump admitting to sexual assault came out on Friday and Republicans ran for the hills, Pence had gone to ground. He bailed on filling in for Trump at the fall picnic of Speaker Paul Ryan (who was “sickened” by the revelations). Pence emerged only to go to church. There was talk of a President Pence. No one would have been surprised if Pence had asked to get off the ticket.