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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) Zach Shields got a surprise of a lifetime this past week, when he heard on the other end of the phone Hi Zach, this is Vice President Mike Pence calling.

Shields is an Eastlake High School senior and is currently applying to many top-notch universities, along with the Military Academies.

What was set up as another interview for the Military Academy, turned out to be so much more.

Vice President Pence continued to say, Zach, I have made the decision to give you my Vice Presidential nomination to the United States Naval Academy. You have tremendous academics, leadership in athletics, and I appreciate that you started a Christian Club at your school becoming the biggest club on campus. Its a privilege to nominate you.

Zach and his parents spoke to Pence for about 5 minutes.

Shields joined Good Morning San Diego to discuss his phone call with Vice President Pence.

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WASHINGTON D.C. (CBS) Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence will be vaccinated publicly on Friday, the vice presidents office confirmed. The vice president will be the most high-profile person yet to publicly receive the coronavirus vaccine.

President Trump, who had COVID-19 in October, has not yet committed to taking the vaccine on television. Mr. Trump has said he looks forward to taking the vaccine at the appropriate time.

Axios first reported Pences upcoming vaccination. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams will also be vaccinated publicly, the vice presidents office said.

The office said Pence and the second lady will publicly receive the vaccine to promote the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and build confidence among the American people.

As head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and a former governor, Pence has played a significant role in the administrations response, taking the lead on working with governors to fight the virus.

Both the Trump and the Biden administrations have their work cut out for them to build public confidence in the vaccine, which continues to be lower than public health officials would like. The most recent former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have all agreed to be vaccinated live on camera.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as next week, transition officials tell CBS News. Earlier Wednesday, Mr. Biden told reporters his aides are making preparations for him to take the vaccine in public.

I dont want to get ahead of the line but I want to make sure that we demonstrate to the American people that it is safe to take, the president-elect said.

More than 300,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and case numbers continue to rise at an alarming rate. Pfizers coronavirus vaccine was authorized for emergency use by the FDA on Friday, and top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci says the vaccine should be widely available to Americans by spring. Officials are focused on vaccinating health care workers, those in long-term care facilities and vulnerable older Americans first.

The Coronavirus Task Forces Admiral Brett Giroir said on Fox Business Wednesday that the Moderna vaccine will be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for approval on Thursday, and if approved, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will reach 8 million people next week. The FDA said the Moderna vaccine shows no specific safety concerns.

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The Department of Health and Human Services and Operation Warp Speed did not respond to a request for clarification after the statement from DC Health, having previously insisted that decisions were being made at the local level.

According to Army Gen. Gustave Perna, the chief operating officer for Warp Speed, only a handful of federal departments and agencies have their own allotments.

The five federal agencies are Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, Department of State, Indian Health Services and Bureau of Federal Prisons, Perna said Dec. 2.

Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to be vaccinated on Friday, and he and other senior officials certainly could be receiving a vaccine from one of those supplies, but multiple federal officials have declined to give a clear answer.

Outside of that, Pence would be expected to receive a dose of vaccine that is counted in the supply allocated to his state of residence.

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The biggest casualty of the 2020 election was, of course, Donald Trump, who became only the fifth president since the 1800s to be booted out of office after one term and the first in 28 years. But the second most prominent victim may turn out to be Trumps sidekick, Vice President Mike Pence.

Its been pretty clear from the very beginning that Pence was aiming to run ultimately for president in his own right, probably his motivation for accepting the nod as Trumps No. 2 in the first place. He has been a sycophantic Trump defender and explainer in all things, having mastered early on the Nancy Reaganesque adoring gaze at the president whenever in his presence. Be true to the boss, Im sure Pence thought, and hell fall heir to Trumps fanatical base in his own run.

Mondale was annihilated, losing 49 states, carrying only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.

But in the two most recent cases of one-term presidents George H.W. Bush in 92 and Jimmy Carter in 80 their politically ambitious understudies embarrassingly flamed out when they pulled themselves out of the debris, dusted themselves off and ran in their own right four years later.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale, who went down with Carter in the 1980 Reagan landslide, began running almost immediately for the Democratic nomination in 1984. He faced a significant and tenacious opponent in Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, and barely won the nomination after a fractious primary process in which Hart refused to concede. Mondale made history by choosing the first-ever female running mate on a major party ticket, New York Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, a move designed to engender enthusiasm and motivate the Democratic base. But alas, after running a lackluster campaign and being spanked by Reagan in the debates, Mondale was annihilated, losing 49 states, carrying only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.

That takes us to Dan Quayle, the last defeated sitting vice president with visions of sugar plums dancing in his head sent about avenging his bosss loss and running for president in his own right. It was widely assumed by the pundits and prognosticators that Quayle would seek the 96 GOP nomination, and that he would have the pole position. Conservative columnist Jack Anderson in the Washington Post was a particularly exuberant shill for Quayle, writing that Quayle had the inside track, claiming that Quayle tops the list, and that his biggest strength is his fundraising ability.

In all of U.S history, only two vice presidents have ever been elected president after an interregnum between their service in that post and their election as president.

But Quayles 96 campaign ultimately got little traction, and in February of 1995, he withdrew from the race before it even really started, coming only three weeks after he had announced his candidacy at a rally in Indianapolis. Given the hype about his supposed advantage in fundraising, it was ironic that the New York Times headline on the story announcing Quayles withdrawal read Facing financial squeeze, Quayle pulls out of 96 race.

But it wasnt the ex-veeps last humiliation as a presidential aspirant. Lest we forget, Quayle also announced he was going to run in 2000. By then almost a political footnote, his second attempted comeback didnt end well, either. After finishing eighth yes, eighth in the Iowa straw poll, the former conservative darling dropped out of the race and out of sight, claiming he couldnt raise the money to compete.

In fact, in all of U.S history, only two vice presidents have ever been elected president after an interregnum between their service in that post and their election as president Richard Nixon, who won in 1968 after leaving office as vice president in 1961, and now Joe Biden, elected commander in chief four years after departing as vice president.

But even these two exceptions did not involve the circumstances Pence will face having been ejected from office unceremoniously with his boss after one term, with the president with whom he served essentially in disrepute with a large majority of voters. Both former Pres. Eisenhower and former Pres. Obama remained in high regard during the campaigns of their erstwhile underlings.

Also, neither Nixon nor Biden had to contend with a defeated ex-president who threatened to run again to redeem himself. Trump will surely dominate the race and suck most of the air out of the room in the 2024 race if he does run and demean and denigrate Pence to no end with his base if he dares run against him.

So, Mike Pence, welcome as a prospective member of the Mondale-Quayle Hall of Forgotten Vice Presidents. Congrats, I guess.Editors Note: California political consultant Garry South is a veteran Democratic strategist and commentator who managed Gov. Gray Davis successful campaigns in 1998 and 2002, and played central roles in three presidential campaigns.

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Brian Howey, Columnist Published 10:43 p.m. CT Nov. 25, 2020 | Updated 10:47 a.m. CT Nov. 26, 2020

Whether it was North Side Gym in Elkhart or the Southport Fieldhouse, or packing Evansville's Ford Center with 11,000 supporters in September 2018, President Trump was at the spearhead of a populist movement. His MAGA rallies filled Indiana's basketball palaces, with thousands who couldn't get in standing outside.

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In contrast, at a solo Oct. 22 campaign rally at Fort Wayne International Airport, Vice President Mike Pence drew a very, very modest 400 supporters.

Both Trump and Pence lost the Nov. 3 election, with Democrat Joe Biden polling more than 80 million votes in a 51-47% popular vote victory. Yet 74 million voted for Trump despite the pandemic and the ensuing economic meltdown. Within hours of his loss, Trump was telling friends he is considering a comeback in 2024, just as he kicked off his reelection bid just days after his 2016 upset victory over Hillary Clinton.

Conventional wisdom had it that if Trump lost, some how, some way it would be Pence who would become the frontrunner. Yet other recent veep losers (Walter Mondale in 1980 and Dan Quayle in 1992) weren't able to make this comeback.

Craig Dunn, the former Howard County Republican chairman, observed in his Howey Politics Indiana column on Nov. 5, "For a relatively quiet man, Mike Pence has shown that he possesses the grit of a riverboat gambler when it comes to his political career. As a first-term governor, Pence could have served out another four years and then made a run for the highest office in the land in 2020, should Donald Trump not have been elected. It was the safe play, but not the play made by Pence. Instead, Mike Pence threw caution to the wind and hitched his wagon and political fortune to the wild ride of Donald Trump."

Pence is now chained to however the Trump legacy bears out. A Politico/Morning Consult Poll released this past week had Trump leading Pence 53-12% in a hypothetical 2024 primary matchup, with Donald Trump Jr. at 8%. Other GOP rising stars such as Nikki Haley and Tom Cotton barely registered.

"The wild card in all of this will be the plans and whims of Donald J. Trump," Dunn observed. "He might decide to make another run in a bid for redemption or weigh in on behalf of one of his children or one of his loyalists. Make no mistake about it, President Trump will happily throw Mike Pence under a bus and label him a loser if it suits his purpose. He has done the same to a litany of qualified and good men and women and Mike Pence should not expect any different treatment.

"President Trump, like him or not, is a death star and tends to destroy anything that enters his orbit," Dunn added.

Club For Growth President David McIntosh, a close friend of Pence, told Politico before the election, If President Trump is not reelected and decides to mount that campaign (Pence) would put any personal ambitions aside to help the president. He holds these things lightly because he knows its either a calling for him or its not. Hell spend a lot of time being out there with members when they need to raise money and helping conservative pro-Trump candidates be successful in their races."

Pence is expected to move back to Indiana, write a book and give paid speeches for the next couple of years. Trump faces an array of post-White House challenges, including tax fraud investigations from New York state (which can't be vanquished if Trump tries to pardon himself), to hundreds of millions of personal loans coming due in the next four years, to health concerns (hell be 78 in 2024). Trump will remain in the headlines, but how his political legacy fares is anyone's guess.

The danger for the Republican Party is that while Trump drew that royal flush in 2016 to win, the fact is that he lost the popular vote twice, with Joe Biden doubling the margin in this past election. Combined with Al Gore's 2000 loss to George W. Bush despite winning the popular vote, you'd have to go back to 2004 to find a Republican (George Bush) who won both the popular vote and the Electoral College. Republicans have only won the popular vote in two of the last nine elections.

There have been three other former presidents who sought comebacks after failing at reelection, with two of them involving Hoosiers. President Martin Van Buren lost to William Henry Harrison in 1840, and made an unsuccessful attempt as the Free Soil Party nominee in 1848. President Grover Cleveland lost to Benjamin Harrison in 1888, then recaptured the White House in 1892 (Harrison never won the popular vote, either).

In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt attempted a revival against his hand-picked successor (President William Howard Taft) and lost as the Bull Moose Party nominee to Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the only race featuring three presidents.

A reelection of the Trump/Pence team would have given Pence a significant leg up on the 2024 campaign.

Pence's plan B? Dunn predicts, "Presuming that Mike Pence still wants the job of president, he now faces the daunting task of facing as many as 20 potential Republican candidates in a beauty pageant that will unfold no more reasonably than the circus sideshow that was the 2016 primary season."

The columnist is publisher of Howey Politics Indiana at http://www.howeypolitics.com. Find Howey on Facebook and Twitter @hwypol.

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