Mike Pence speaks to ABC News (screen grab)
Would Donald Trump replace Mike Pence? That's a question the president's advisors are trying to get him to answer. According to Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman (whose track record is excellent,) Trump hosted a 2020 strategy meeting on Monday.
Pence was on the agenda.
Trump's advisors are "beginning to think about whether Mike Pence should be running again," a source told Sherman, saying polling shows the vice president "doesn’t add anything" to the ticket.
"Trump Ponders Jettisoning His Loyal V.P." reads a portion of Sherman's title.
The New York Times last month reported, as Sherman writes, that "Trump had been privately asking advisers if Pence could be trusted, and that outside advisers have been pushing Nikki Haley to replace Pence."
News broke on Wednesday also the the soon-to-be-former UN Ambassador will be selling her home in South Carolina and staying in New York City to write a book. A book is often a precursor to a presidential campaign run, although Haley promised to not run against Trump. She never said she would not run with him.
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While he called the spy balloon "disturbing," he explained that they would receive a briefing Tuesday ahead of the State of the Union address.
"The only good thing to come out of this is to highlight how aggressive the Chinese are at espionage and we know they will stop at nothing. But this is kind of like a thumb in the eye. Obviously, if people don't understand TikTok and some of the cyberattacks of the Office of Personnel Management a few years ago, where millions of security applications were sucked up. But they do understand this. So, hopefully, it'll encourage greater vigilance not only by the American people but by Congress."
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"This seems to me to be a huge mistake but it also raises the issue of why there were other balloons transiting the United States that the previous administration didn't know about and wasn't told about," Cornyn added.
"It didn't happen!" Greene told reporters about the balloon. "It did not happen. President Trump said it didn't happen, people in his former administration said it didn't happen, people who didn't even like President Trump from his former administration said it didn't happen -- and then all of a sudden, poof, like a spy balloon has happened? It's crazy!"
The Air Force assessment report said that the 2019 incident wasn't revealed to the White House until after Trump was out of office.
With additional reporting by Matt Laslo
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