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Mike Pence

Coverage of the 48th vice president of the United States

Louie Gohmert’s failed election lawsuit, briefly explained

By Cameron Peters

A post-debate focus group of undecided voters suggests that Kamala Harris faces an uphill battle

By Nicole Narea

Why Mike Pence’s pink-looking eye caused so much speculation

By Terry Nguyen

Mike Pence tried to blame Kamala Harris for undermining a Covid-19 vaccine. But the public blames Trump.

By Dylan Scott

“Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking”: Kamala Harris repeatedly shut down Mike Pence’s interruptions at the debate

By Li Zhou

Susan Page, a veteran political journalist, is moderating the vice presidential debate

By Li Zhou

Trump’s Operation Warp Speed could be a success. The problem is Trump.

By Dylan Scott

The fight over plexiglass dividers at the VP debate is a microcosm of Pence’s coronavirus failures

By Aaron Rupar

What a Pence presidency would look like

By Anna North

This stream has:

The 2020 vice presidential debate

By Vox Staff

The most shocking line in Vice President Pence’s 2020 RNC speech 

By Ian Millhiser

Team of sycophants: a presidential historian on Trump’s White House

By Sean Illing

Mike Pence launched Republicans’ war on Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Kliff

Mike Pence's church pitch, the Johnson Amendment, and the decline of the religious right

By Alissa Wilkinson

Mike Pence enabled Donald Trump. Stop saying he’d make a good president.

By Libby Nelson

Mike Pence is no less of a threat to women than Donald Trump

By Emily Crockett

Mike Pence: “I do not condone his remarks and I cannot defend them”

By Matthew Yglesias

A modest proposal to replace Trump with Pence — with or without Trump’s consent

By Akhil Reed Amar

Vox Sentences: Someone tell Mike Pence who his running mate is

By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews

How the Clinton campaign is making #ThatMexicanThing a thing, explained

By Tara Golshan

Tim Kaine interrupted Mike Pence 72 times at the debate. It wasn’t a good look.

By Tara Golshan

Mike Pence demonstrated what Trumpism might look like after Trump

By Dara Lind

A Trump-Pence administration absolutely would "punish" women who have abortions

By Emily Crockett

Mike Pence brazenly contradicted Trump on Russia and Syria

By Zack Beauchamp

Tim Kaine: Pence and Trump should “trust women” on abortion, not ban it

By Emily Crockett

Mike Pence is a great salesman. But he’s stuck selling a terrible product.

By Andrew Prokop

Mike Pence won the debate by throwing Donald Trump under the bus

By Matthew Yglesias

Mike Pence says Clinton-Kaine is an "insult-driven" campaign as Trump tweets insults

By Jeff Stein

Yes, Mike Pence, it’s possible for black cops to have implicit bias

By German Lopez

The RNC accidentally put up its “Mike Pence won the debate” post early

By Andrew Prokop

Mike Pence is politely fighting on the front line of the right-wing culture war

By Emily Crockett

Mike Pence claimed “smoking doesn’t kill” as late as 2000

By Dylan Matthews

Mike Pence and Donald Trump disagree on a heck of a lot of issues

By Tara Golshan

Donald Trump’s humiliation of Mike Pence has made tonight’s VP debate very strange

By Ezra Klein

Trump is very worried about Chicago gun violence. His running mate’s lax gun laws don’t help.

By German Lopez

The VP job has become increasingly important. But Pence and Kaine shouldn't get their hopes too high.

By Andrew Prokop

This stream has:

Vice presidential debate: Tim Kaine vs. Mike Pence

By Vox Staff

Mike Pence: 7 things to know about Donald Trump’s VP nominee

By Andrew Prokop

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a law this year that mandated funerals for fetuses

By Emily Crockett

Mike Pence as Donald Trump’s vice president is an extra awful choice for LGBTQ rights

By German Lopez