The Mike Pence Secret Power Base...EXACTLY like Avengers Infinity War, but no superheroes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/pence-trump-midterms.html
Republican officials now see Mr. Pence as seeking to exercise expansive control over a political party ostensibly helmed by Mr. Trump, tending to his own allies and interests even when the presidents instincts lean in another direction. Even as he laces his public remarks with praise for the president, Mr. Pence and his influential chief of staff, Nick Ayers, are unsettling a group of Mr. Trumps fierce loyalists who fear they are forging a separate power base.
In addition to addressing dozens of party events in recent months, Mr. Pence has effectively made himself the frontman for America First Policies, an outside group set up to back Mr. Trumps agenda. He has keynoted more than a dozen of its events this year, traveling under its banner to states including Iowa and New Hampshire. And Mr. Pence has worked insistently to shape Mr. Trumps endorsements, prodding him in the contests for governor of Florida and speaker of the House, among others.
Word of the internal tensions is getting out beyond the walls of the White House: one prominent lawmaker said the complaints of high-ranking Trump officials were starting to circulate on Capitol Hill.
Theyre looking for people to stay on the team, not break away from the team, said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, of the Trump side of the West Wing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/pence-trump-midterms.html