Pence Tests Iowa Waters Ahead of 2024 Decision – By Philip Wegmann (Real Clear Politics) / Mar 30 2023
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—At the country club here, where brown winter grass next to the tennis courts hasn’t yet given way to green, Mike Pence speaks at a luncheon, trying to convey the seriousness of the current moment, defending past conservative accomplishments, and hinting all the while that more success is possible if only voters would return him to the White House. Just in the Oval Office this time.
But his microphone is broken. The former vice president sounds like a bad broadcast on AM radio.
The audience is struggling to comprehend what he says through all the static and pinging, until Pence whacks the mic and flips it off-then-on. Suddenly the dulcet voice that comforted social conservatives throughout the previous administration returns. The crowd sighs.
