@michael_martinez Well consider the guy in terms of his actual job and his position in the machinery of the federal government separate from his personal opinions.

I think a lot of his way of doing things really reflected his role as a cog in the machine.

As VP he believed his job description involved supporting the president (which is a belief that is pretty common in the US and that I personally disagree with, but whatever) so he did his best to do his job at the time. And then his job became to count the electoral college votes, so he did that.

Now he is applying for the job of president and he believes that job description includes looking hard at the facts before deciding whether to pardon a person or not, and for the sake of doing that job, he declared that he would not issue an opinion before all of the facts were on the table.

I really think that Pence is the sort of person who focuses on what his actual job is, what the job description actually says he's supposed to do, and he has a long history of demonstrating that.

That is reflective of law and order.

But yeah, he hasn't run about declaring that Trump is a threat to democracy in part because that's not his job, and the guy really focuses on what he thinks his job is.