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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Vice President <keyword id="264959" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mike-Pence">Mike Pence</keyword> will continue campaigning even after <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/24/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates">at least four of his staff</a> tested positive for the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword>, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1320354343875432450">told CNN on Sunday.</a></li><li>Marc Short, Pence's chief of staff, and <keyword id="4866056" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="marty-obst">Marty Obst</keyword>, a top advisor to Pence, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-25/pence-adviser-obst-caught-virus-adding-to-white-house-outbreak">Bloomberg News</a>.</li><li>Short's positive result was confirmed by Pence's office in a statement to Bloomberg. The statement said Pence has been in close contact with Short, but that the vice president would not quarantine.</li><li>Three people familiar with the matter told the outlet Obst tested positive last week and that he has not been in close contact with Pence.</li><li>Short and Obst are just the latest people in the <a href="https://www.insider.com/white-house-staff-members-who-had-covid-19-2020-10#president-donald-trump-and-first-lady-melania-trump-1">White House orbit to become infected with the coronavirus</a>. Dozens of lawmakers, White House staff, and campaign officials tested positive earlier this month, including President Donald Trump.</li></ul>Vice President Mike Pence will continue to campaign even after at least four of his staff members, including his chief of staff, tested positive for coronavirus. In an interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1320354343875432450">CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday</a>, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said "essential personnel, whether it's the Vice President of the United States or anyone else, has to continue on."When pressed about not abiding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/quarantine.html"> guidelines</a>, which advise those who come in contact with someone who tests positive for <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> to quarantine for 14 days, Meadows defended the Vice President by saying he was "essential personnel."<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/critical-workers/implementing-safety-practices.html">According to the CDC</a>, essential workers are permitted to work after exposure to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 if they abide by the guidelines including wearing a mask, social distancing, and regularly monitoring for symptoms. Meadows said Pence was wearing a mask under the doctors' advice. To date, four aides to Pence have tested positive for COVID-19, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/24/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates">according to The New York Times.</a>Marc Short, Pence's chief of staff, and Marty Obst, a top advisor to Pence, have both tested positive for the novel coronavirus, sources reportedly told <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-25/pence-adviser-obst-caught-virus-adding-to-white-house-outbreak">Bloomberg News</a>.In a statement provided to the outlet, Pence's office said the vice president has been in close contact with Short, but that he would not quarantine, per the CDC guidelines for "essential personnel."Pence and his wife both reportedly tested negative on Saturday, according to a statement from Pence's press secretary <a href="https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1320193030876483584">shared by Vice News correspondant Elizabeth Landers</a> on Twitter.Obst, who serves as a senior political advisor to the vice president, is often in close contact with Pence.Sources reportedly told Bloomberg that Obst received his diagnosis on Wednesday and was near Pence "about a week ago," but that they were not in close contact.The White House has not responded to Business Insider's request for comment.Short and Obst are just the latest people in the <a href="https://www.insider.com/white-house-staff-members-who-had-covid-19-2020-10#president-donald-trump-and-first-lady-melania-trump-1">White House orbit to become infected with the coronavirus</a>. Dozens of lawmakers, White House staff, and campaign officials tested positive earlier this month, including President Donald Trump, his wife, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, and Republican National Convention Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, among others.Katie Miller, Pence's current communications director and former press secretary, previously tested positive for the coronavirus in May but has since recovered. <a href="https://twitter.com/VPComDir/status/1318169584336240641">Pence is currently on the campaign trail</a> ahead of the November 3 presidential election. Hours before Obst's positive test result was reported, the vice president made appearances in Lakeland and Tallahassee, Florida on Saturday, but stayed away from others at the events, <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1320183506694213632">according to Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs</a>.

Pence to continue campaigning despite a COVID-19 outbreak that has hit at least 4 of his staff

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President Donald Trump again asserted that the US is overcoming the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> on Saturday — despite data showing the opposite.</li><li>"Now we got to have spirit, our country. We're rounding the turn, our numbers are incredible," Trump told rallygoers in North Carolina, repeating a phrase he has used often.</li><li>On Friday and Saturday the US marked a new milestone in the pandemic, recording around 83,700 new cases of COVID-19 each day, far surpassing the previous record from July.</li><li>Experts warn that as the country is heading into winter, it is entering its third, and likely deadliest, coronavirus surge.</li></ul>President Donald Trump told supporters that "we're rounding the turn" on the coronavirus, a phrase he has used repeatedly despite an unprecedented surge in infections.<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1320052737619406849">Trump made the assertion at a rally in Lumberton, North Carolina,</a> on Saturday. As he spoke, the US had just recorded 83,757 new COVID-19 infections for Friday October 23, according to data from John Hopkins University.As of early Sunday, figures show that Saturday October 24 brought a similar total — 83,718.The figures set a new record for a single day of infections in the US, surpassing the previous high of around 77,300 on July 16."Now we got to have spirit, our country. We're doing great, we're rounding the turn, our numbers are incredible," Trump told the crowd.Watch the moment below:Experts have said the country is entering its third and likely, deadliest surge in COVID-19 cases even though deaths have not yet risen as dramatically."My worry is that we're just going to be completely overwhelmed," Megan Ranney, an emergency-medicine physician at Brown University, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-third-coronavirus-case-surge-outbreak-deadliest-largest-yet-2020-10">previously told Business Insider</a>."Even if we do better on a case-by-case basis, I think that the number of deaths that we're going to experience this fall and winter is going to dwarf what we've already been through."In total, the US has reported more than 8.5 million cases so far and almost 225,000 deaths, according to the JHU tracker.Trump has repeatedly used the phrase "rounding the turn" — or variations of it — over the last two months when referring to the coronavirus pandemic, even as the numbers worsened.He even deployed the phrase during Thursday's second presidential debate, when he said: "We're rounding the corner. It's going away."Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading US infectious-disease expert, also criticized Trump's use of the phrase in <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000nxgj/the-andrew-marr-show-25102020">an interview with the BBC broadcast Sunday</a>.When shown footage of Trump using the phrase at the debate, Fauci said Trump was wrong and that the US is "actually going in the wrong direction."In the footage, which was recorded ahead of time on Friday, he continued: "If you just look at the numbers, I mean you can have opinions about what's going on but the data speak for themselves."The president's comments came as new infections were also been reported at the top of his administration. Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, and Marty Obst, a top advisor to Pence, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-advisor-to-mike-pence-tests-positive-for-covid-19-2020-10">b</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-advisor-to-mike-pence-tests-positive-for-covid-19-2020-10">oth have tested positive for the novel coronavirus,</a> his office announced on Saturday.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pence-vice-president-top-staff-advisers-karen-pence-2024-2020-10">[Who are Marc Short and Marty Obst and why are they so important to Pence? Check out our comprehensive guide to Penceworld.]</a><div type="image" title="Marc Short" height="1193" width="2386" msid="78858083" hostid="261"></div>Pence's office said the vice president had been in close contact with Short, but that he would not quarantine and continue to keep traveling and holding rallies in the week running up to the election.Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, both tested negative for the virus on Saturday and "and remain in good health," <a href="https://apnews.com/article/03de71eecbb9a605b1efc324cdeb3a5e">a spokesperson told the Associated Press (AP).</a><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnsons-conservatives-preparing-for-a-joe-biden-victory-2020-10">Boris Johnson's Conservatives are abandoning Trump in anticipation of a Biden victory</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-pulled-48-trump-ads-saying-votes-have-not-counted-2020-10">Facebook pulled 48 Trump election campaign ads which told people 'your vote has not been counted'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-florida-rally-seniors-air-conditioning-energy-presidential-election-2020-10">Trump says that if Biden is elected, seniors will have 'no air conditioning during the summer'</a></li></ul>

Trump kept on declaring the US is 'rounding the turn' on COVID-19, even as it recorded its 2 worst-ever days of infections

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Vice President <keyword id="264959" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mike-Pence">Mike Pence</keyword> continued to campaign on Sunday after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-advisor-to-mike-pence-tests-positive-for-covid-19-2020-10">at least four of his top aides</a> tested positive for <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword>. </li><li>Former New Jersey Gov. <keyword id="160347" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Chris-Christie">Chris Christie</keyword> said he was "surprised" by Pence's actions. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/christie-remdesivir-eli-lilly-experimental-therapies-coronavirus-2020-10">Christie spent seven days in the hospital</a> after contracting COVID-19 earlier this month.</li><li>Since recovering, Christie has said he was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-christie-wrong-not-to-wear-mask-white-house-2020-10">"wrong" to not wear a mask</a> at a White House ceremony in which President Donald Trump announced Amy Coney Barrett was his Supreme Court Nomination. </li></ul>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he was "surprised" Vice President Mike Pence continued to campaign after several of his aides tested positive for COVID-19, saying he should "put the <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="health">health</keyword> of the people" first."You got to keep yourself away from everybody, and I'm a little bit surprised," <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-10-25-20/story?id=73819051">he told ABC's "This Week"</a> while discussing <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-advisor-to-mike-pence-tests-positive-for-covid-19-2020-10">at least four of Pence's top aides</a>, including chief of staff Marc Short and advisor Marty Obst, tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.Christie <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/christie-remdesivir-eli-lilly-experimental-therapies-coronavirus-2020-10">spent seven days in the hospital earlier this month</a> after testing positive for the virus. After recovering, he urged Americans to take the novel <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> pandemic seriously <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-christie-wrong-not-to-wear-mask-white-house-2020-10">and said he was "wrong"</a> for not wearing a mask at a White House ceremony in which President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court."The whole getting of COVID to begin with and the not wearing of masks has been a problem," Christie told ABC's "This Week." "I've talked about that over the last couple of weeks. And so I think everybody's got to put the health of the people they're going to be in touch with first."Christie made the comments before Pence was scheduled to speak at a campaign event in North Carolina. On Monday, Pence was set to preside over a Senate confirmation hearing for Barrett, <a href="https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1320756653684383745">but he canceled</a> after Democratic leaders asked him not to attend.<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christie-surprised-pence-to-campaign-after-aides-test-positive-for-covid-19_n_5f95a344c5b673c60824a9de">In a statement to HuffPost</a>, Pence spokesman Devin O'Malley said the vice president had no plans to rearrange his schedule because of the COVID-19 outbreak."While Vice President Pence is considered a close contact with Mr. Short, in consultation with the White House Medical Unit, the vice president will maintain his schedule in accordance with the CDC guidelines for essential personnel," Pence spokesman Devin O'Malley said in a statement.Pence's office told HuffPost that the vice president and his wife, Karen Pence, tested negative for COVID-19 on Sunday.Pence's office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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MANCHESTER, N.H. - Just before the sun set over the Merrimack River, former Vice President <keyword id="264959" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mike-Pence">Mike Pence</keyword> took the stage at the Double Tree hotel in downtown Manchester Thursday night, ready to test his presidential ambitions and put a dark chapter to rest.He walked up to "Takin' Care of Business" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, with prepared remarks including phrases such as "moral decay" and "the great Republican comeback," culminating in a series of crescendos aimed at getting applause.Most landed, but some didn't.In his signature speaking cadence, he had something important to say - that he and former President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pence-january-6-quote-on-relationship-with-trump-nh-2021-6">may never "see eye to eye" on the January 6 insurrection</a>, but that he's still proud of what the "Trump-Pence administration" accomplished - but not until the completion of the Pledge of Allegiance, the National Anthem, introductory speeches, a series of toasts, and a call for the men in the room to "seat the ladies."Pence was the main attraction for the Hillsborough County GOP's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner, promising a fundraising boost as the biggest name to hit the trail so far in the so-called invisible primary.With over half of the Granite State's GOP voters in just two counties - Hillsborough and Rockingham, sitting in the southeast corner of the state near the Boston suburbs - this dinner was equal parts prom and shopping for <keyword id="822202" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-Hampshire">New Hampshire</keyword>'s Republican elite.At $1,000 for a table of 10 and an extra $250 for "VIP room" access, donors and power players could kick the tires on Pence 2024 and rekindle their quadrennial proximity to power.<h3>'He needs to get it out of the way.'</h3>Should Pence choose to run in the 2024 GOP primary, locking up the best talent on the ground in New Hampshire will be a key step.While <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-cotton-laying-groundwork-2024-presidential-run-new-hampshire-2020-10">some prospective candidates arrive in the Granite State solo</a> or with just one non-governmental staffer - often relying on local lawmakers or unelected power players to show them around - Pence brought with him a small team to work the room.Among them were his former chief of staff as VP, Marc Short, along with his former press secretary, Devin O'Malley, longtime aide Marty Obst, and former Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign manager Chip Saltsman, who organized the trip.Ted Royer wrote Pence's speech for that Thursday night, which bounced between religious themes and a more Trumpian ends-justify-the-means framework."As I said that night, January 6 was a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol," Pence told the crowd. "But thanks to the swift action of the Capitol Police and federal law enforcement, violence was quelled, the Capitol was secured, and that same day, we reconvened the Congress and did our duty under the Constitution and the laws of the United States."The room went silent, save for a few whispered conversations.He'd just landed a trifecta of standing ovations, starting with a line on how "Black lives are not endangered by police, Black lives are saved by police every day," and that the United States "is not a racist country."Shifting into that signature Pence cadence - a staccato rhythm where he gets simultaneously louder and slower approaching the end of a sentence - the former VP gave the crowd what they wanted."You know, President Trump and I have spoken many times since we left office, and I don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day," Pence said. "But I will always be proud of what we accomplished for the American people over the last four years."Pence threaded the needle, distancing himself from Trump and the mob who chanted "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fag0aC_M0_U">Hang Mike Pence</a>" while showing sufficient deference to the undisputed leader of the Republican Party."I thought it was a very good move on his part," a longtime New Hampshire GOP operative told Insider, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about the party's outlook on 2024."He needs to get it out of the way if he wants to run for president," the operative continued. "He handled it far more decently than Trump did, particularly considering Pence was on the right side of the event. I thought the crowd loved him."Although many of the donors and lawmakers in the room have plenty of experience speaking to reporters during primary season, most quickly declined to speak on the record once the subject of January 6 came up."I just think he handled the whole situation tonight very well," David Tille, a 54-year-old Republican from Henniker, told Insider. "And I thought - I was impressed that he addressed it, that he brought it forward."Unlike some Republicans - such as Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who described the insurrection as "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/video-sen-ron-johnson-capitol-insurrection-peaceful-protest-watch-2021-5">by and large a peaceful protest</a>" despite <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-impeachment-trial-capitol-siege-graphic-montage-video-2021-2">copious videos</a> and firsthand accounts to the contrary - the consensus among New Hampshire's GOP intelligentsia seemed to be that the <keyword id="10554785" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="capitol-siege">Capitol siege</keyword> was a horrible moment, but not something that should define the party.Pence said as much, telling the crowd, "I will not allow Democrats or their allies in the media to use one tragic day to discredit the aspirations of millions of Americans."Mark Vincent, former chairman of the Hillsborough County GOP, told Insider that "it's the same party I've always known," and that Pence's remarks on January 6 were neither a rebuke of Trumpism nor a euphemism."It's a Pence-ism," Vincent said of the "eye to eye" descriptor. "That's the way I would expect Mike Pence to describe that situation. And he doesn't wanna dwell on it."<h3>Winning the invisible primary</h3>Before Pence spoke, Thomas and Tom Kentara, a father and son pair of Nashua Republicans, said they think he could possibly get better results as president compared to Trump, citing his relationships in Congress and more even-keeled demeanor.However, both said Pence is not necessarily their pick going into 2024.Along with several other attendees, the Kentaras said they're particularly enthusiastic about two Republican governors - Ron DeSantis of Florida and Kristi Noem of South Dakota - because of how they rebuked public health experts during the pandemic."That's the name you're going to hear the most," Vincent said of DeSantis.A Pence aide told Insider that the former VP was simply in New Hampshire to rally support ahead of the 2022 midterms. Pence was not made available for an interview.The aide also said Pence met with New Hampshire's Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, as well as former Sen. Kelly Ayotte and the GOP conference in the State Senate. A network that includes 424 state lawmakers, dozens of town selectmen and city council members, as well as unelected power brokers in key counties can provide the lifeblood of a presidential campaign in the Granite State.They house campaign staff and volunteers, set up fundraisers, host events, and make endorsements after being courted by the candidates.Trump won the New Hampshire Primary in 2016 without paying much attention to the traditional way of doing things in the state, but with the party firmly in his grasp, whoever wants to win the next one will have to flex the Trumpiest bona fides.With his near death experience on January 6 "out of the way," Pence has begun to do just that.

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Yuri Gripas/ReutersMike Pence.Vice President Mike Pence <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00640664/1162693/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">launched a political action committee</a> last week, which raised eyebrows amid fresh turmoil in the Trump administration.Some have questioned whether the vice president's new leadership PAC, which was noted on the Federal Elections Commission's website Wednesday, was aimed at promoting a possible future presidential bid at a time when some conservatives have started whispering <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/mike-pence-president-trump-238525" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">about the possibility of President Donald Trump's impeachment</a>."No Vice President in modern history had their own PAC less than 6 month into the president's first term," Roger Stone, Trump's longtime political adviser and confidant, <a href="https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/865734952746438656" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted Friday</a>. "Hmmmm."Pence <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/pence-creates-pac-ahead-2018-2020-elections-n761436?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">will be able</a> to use funds generated by the PAC to cover his travel and campaign costs and channel money to GOP candidates in the 2018 midterms. It will also allow the vice president to transfer his database of donors and other campaign-related information he's collected throughout his congressional and gubernatorial career to the PAC.While George H.W. Bush launched a PAC while he was vice president, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-17/pence-takes-steps-to-build-war-chest-as-white-house-stumbles" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">prior</a> to his run for president in 1988, Republicans explained to Business Insider that the new Pence PAC, should not be viewed as a hint at a future Pence bid.Alex Conant, the former communications director for Sen. Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign, said it's clear Pence views this new PAC as a better way to handle his campaigning costs than the more traditional route of having the Republican National Committee or Trump's campaign cover those expenses for him. He said he didn't think the new PAC has the appearance of a vehicle for any presidential ambitions Pence may have."He's the vice president of the United States," Conant said. "I mean, this is not some governor from a small state who is now going to use this, starting a federal PAC, to play on the national level."Nick Ayers, a senior adviser to Pence during the 2016 campaign who helped launch the pro-Trump super PAC "America First Policies," will run the new Pence PAC, dubbed "Great America Committee," alongside Marty Obst, another longtime Pence aide.Ayers said the PAC, which has been "in the works since December" and was discussed with Trump, is a "legal necessity" for Pence.He outlined the three main purposes of the PAC, saying it allows Pence to purchase his prior campaign data - held in a gubernatorial account he can't utilize - and move it to a federal account, cover campaigning costs, and provide him with cash to support candidates and office holders who are supporting Trump's agenda."Some in the media have suggested the PAC's formation has other motives," Ayers told Business Insider in an email. "They are wrong."Getty Images/PoolPence and Donald Trump.Matt Mackowiak, a GOP strategist and CEO of the Potomac Strategy Group, said what Ayers said "makes sense.""If you were to believe they were up to something clever, you know, it would be pretty obvious, it would be pretty transparent," he said. "And I can't imagine they could do something like that that wouldn't rub people the wrong way on the Trump side of things.""I'm sure all of these, whatever they're doing, has been worked out ahead of time," he continued. "Everybody's on the same page."He expects to see Pence campaigning for Republican candidates over the next year as midterms begin to creep closer."Pence is going to be in very high demand," Mackowiak said. "And part of the reason why this is necessary is that Trump and Pence are different. Pence is going to have much lower negatives, nobody is attacking him. He's very well-liked among conservatives, very liked among Republicans. He's a well-liked figure among Republican elected officials. He's very well-liked among donors. He's just going to be a very attractive surrogate for this entire cycle.""Where I think Trump might end up being more limited to certain areas and certain districts, places that he did really well, Pence is going to be much less limited geographically and ideologically and politically than Trump will be," he continued. "But of course, a lot of that depends on what Trump's numbers are later this year, early next year."Brendan Fischer, federal and FEC reform director at the Campaign Legal Center, admitted that the timing of the PAC's launch was "odd" and that it's a "possibility" the PAC could be used to further Pence's political ambitions. But what's more likely, he said, is that the launch of the PAC goes hand-in-hand with Trump's atypical move to file for reelection so early in his first term as president.With a number of campaign events already held so far in his young presidency, Fischer said Pence might feel as if he needs to have such a committee formed early to cover these growing costs, which could also be covered by Trump's campaign if necessary.Fischer added that another reason for the Pence PAC is that the vice president could use funds from it to cover any legal costs accumulated as a result of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, which is now being headed up by recently appointed special counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director.With any possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials being examined, Fischer said he's "sure" the vice president will have legal costs stemming from the investigation examining the campaign. The PAC could pay for any such costs since the investigation directly tied to a campaign, he said.The wildest reason for the PAC was what Fischer admitted was possible - Pence using it for his own presidential future."Certainly the optics of Pence forming his own 2020 campaign committee when his boss is also already declaring his candidacy, I mean, that would be for some strange, strange optics," he said.<h3>More from Allan Smith:</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-week-fbi-russia-2017-5" rel="nofollow">'We're in a full-fledged feeding frenzy': Trump just had 2 unprecedentedly tumultuous weeks</a></li><li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-nut-job-james-comey-russia-2017-5" rel="nofollow">Trump to Russian diplomats: Firing 'nut job' James Comey took 'great pressure' off me</a></li><li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-people-have-been-impeached-us-history-16-2017-5" rel="nofollow">16 US federal officials have been impeached in history - here are the craziest reasons why</a></li><li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/james-comey-white-house-curtains-trump-2017-5" rel="nofollow">James Comey wore a blue suit to blend in with the White House curtains and avoid an awkward interaction with Trump</a></li><li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-reaction-to-special-prosecutor-2017-5" rel="nofollow">Trump calls appointment of a special counsel a 'very, very negative thing': 'I believe it hurts our country terribly'</a></li></ul> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-vladimir-putin-respond-comey-firing-hockey-game-fbi-cbs-video-politics-russia-investigation-2017-5">WATCH: Putin reacts to Trump firing FBI Director James Comey</a></h3> Please enable Javascript to watch this video

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