“I came here to say it’s become clear to me that it’s not my time. So after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today,” Pence said, to audible gasps from the audience gathered at the Venetian resort on the Las Vegas strip.

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    So he eventually realized that he wasn’t winning a popularity contest with the people who were looking to hang him. It really shouldn’t have taken this long.

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      He overestimated how many old school Republicans there were. Nope, most of the party wanted Trumpism all along.

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        Yep. It turns out the True Conservatives ™ and the freewheeling “independents” are things that barely even exist, no matter how much the likes of David Brooks wants to magic them into being a majority in this country by feverish writing another column.