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I knew Lobianco (we call him T-Lo) when he was a reporter at the Indiana Statehouse for the Associated Press and the Indianapolis Star. His chronicle of Pence’s story from his youth in Columbus, Indiana, through his rise in Republican politics to his surprising pick to join the Trump ticket is fascinating.

The connection between the strategies and choices Pence made along the way shows a collection of moral bargaining that explains what we see in the former VP today. Hoosiers knew much of these stories in isolation, but the collection of them and the contextualizing of them in hindsight…

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