The ill-fated presidential candidacy of former Vice President Mike Pence collided with empirical reality on Saturday and unfortunately for him, only reality survived. Pence is the first to bow out of the Republican primary but won’t be the last.
The devil’s bargain Republicans cut with Donald Trump is methodically sucking the blood out of candidates one by one. The only question is who will be next.
Pence will be the first current or former vice president of the binding primary era to seriously seek and then fail to gain his party’s nomination.