Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
Most of the former Republican presidential candidates did something predictable upon ending their candidacies: They endorsed Donald Trump. There are exceptions — former Ambassador Nikki Haley has not yet spoken up — but Sen. Tim Scott, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Gov. Doug Burgum, Vivek Ramaswamy each wasted little time throwing their support behind the former president. After the former president no longer had any intraparty rivals, other former Trump skeptics, including Gov. Chris Sununu, Sen.
I’m often reminded of a June 2018 gathering at FEMA headquarters, where Trump sat at the head of the table, took a water bottle, and moved it to the floor. Moments later, his vice president mirrored the move, putting his water bottle on the floor, too. It was emblematic of a larger truth: For four years, Pence was obsequious to the point of embarrassment. He enabled Trump. He covered for Trump.
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