Pence the ‘hero’ who foiled Trump’s plot – could it lead to a 2024 run?

The former VP rejected the plot to overturn the election - the death knell for Trump and Pence's marriage of convenience

Mike Pence was described as the hero of the hour, the man who stood his ground to Donald Trump's coup plot and saved America from a violent revolution".

Yet among the rows of committee members, witnesses, reporters, congressmen and women and young citizens at Thursday's January 6 hearing into the attack on the Capitol, the former vice-president was nowhere to be seen. Pence was 500 miles away in Ohio to promote American energy dominance".