Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Only 25 people showed up for Mike Pence campaign event at Penn Drug store, a pharmacy department of WalGreens, Sidney.
Another user, under the name of Michelyn, remarked: “Is he at a Walgreens’s? This is just sad and pathetic. He needs to go home.” Betty Bowers said that Pence is “married to almost 1/10th of his audience.”
This is seriously a Mike Pence campaign event in Sidney, Iowa.
It took place inside of the Penn Drug store, where about 25 or so people showed up to listen to Pence speak.
Oh, how far Mike Pence has fallen. He went from being one of the right’s favorite politicians, to one that no one wants to associate with anymore.
Why is that?
I believe it’s strictly because he refused to reject the legitimate electors. Is standing up to potential authoritarianism the reason why Pence has been punished by Republicans? On a crisp evening in a small town not far from Iowa’s southwestern border, Mike Pence’s decades-long quest for the White House has come down to a coin toss.
Here he is, the most recent former GOP vice president, standing at the 50-yard-line of a high school football field in a town just shy of 7,000. The team captains stand alongside him and his wife Karen, the smell of brats grilling and corn popping in the air. Tails. The hometown Trojans win the toss against the Perry Bluejays. “There’s nothing like Friday night lights,” he will soon tell a reporter from the student newspaper. “We wouldn’t have missed it for the world.”
Next, he makes his way to the press box to provide color commentary for the game on the local AM radio station KJAN (“contemporary adult hits!”). Earlier this afternoon he confessed to me that he was nervous about the ordeal — it’s been decades since, after losing congressional bids in 1988 and 1990, he hosted a Saturday morning call-in show on WNDE-AM in Indianapolis before jumping to FM syndication of The Mike Pence Show. “They told me I could go up to the booth and do play by play,” I overheard him tell a voter. “Not good. It’s been a long time.”
According to the U.S. Census, Sidney had a population of just over 1,000 people in 2020.
The image has done the rounds online, with plenty of users stepping in to mock the 2024 Republican candidate.
Jo remarked on X that “Mike Pence’s ‘events’ make the DMV waiting room look captivated by comparison.” User Nancy Wooton replied with “When the 15-minute wait following your vax comes with the world’s worst entertainment,” referring to the wait times advised after having had a coronavirus vaccine or booster.