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The New York Times bestselling autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence

Loyalty is a Vice Presidents first duty but there is a greater oneto God and the Constitution

Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors On the surface the affable evangelical Christian from a gasstationowning family in Indiana wouldnt seem to have much in common with a brash real estate mogul from New York But the unlikely duo formed a tight bond Pence was at Donald Trumps side when he enacted historic tax relief when he decided to take more assertive stances toward China and North Korea and when he appointed three Supreme Court justices But the relationship broke down after the 2020 election On January 6 2021 as the president pressured him to overturn the election a mob erected a gallows on Capitol Hill and its members chanted Hang Mike Pence as they rampaged through the halls of Congress The vice president refused to leave the Capitol and once the riot was quelled he reconvened Congress to complete the work of a peaceful transfer of power

So Help Me God is the chronicle of the events and people who forged Mike Pences character and led him to that historic moment His father a Korean War combat veteran was a formidable influence but so was the Indiana history professor who inspired his devotion to the Constitution And it was in college and law school that he embraced his Christian faith and met the love of his life Karenthe two pillars that support him every day You will read how his early political career was full of missteps that humbled him and how as a talk radio host Pence found his voice and the path that led him to Congress the governors office in Indiana and back to Washington as vice president

This is the inside story of the Trump administration by its second highest officialwhat he said to the president and how he was tested The relationship begins in Indiana when Pence sees how Trump connects with workingclass voters After the election the vice president comes to appreciate how Trump maintains that connection through unvarnished tweets and how his unorthodox style led to historic breakthroughs from tax cuts to trade deals from establishing the United States Space Force to the first new peace agreement in the Middle East in more than twentyfive years This is the most robust defense of the Trump record of anyone who served in the administration

But it is also about the private moments when Pence pushed back forcefully how he navigated through the Mueller investigation his damage control after Charlottesville and his work on healing racial rifts after the murder of George Floyd Pence was at the forefront when history showed up in the form of a devastating pandemic and he provides a detailed account of leading the task force that circumvented bureaucracies to slow the disease in its tracks Yes it sometimes involved brokering peace between a president with an itchy Twitter finger and an agitated New York governor but above all it meant giving states and Americas eager entrepreneurs the power to come up with the solutions we needed The result was the fastest development of lifesaving vaccines in history

In So Help Me God Pence shows how the faith that he embraced as a young man guided his every decision It is a faith that guided him on that historic day and that keeps him happily at peace ready to accept the next challenge