The autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence. Loyalty is a Vice President’s first duty
but there is a greater one—to 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
gas-station-owning family in Indiana wouldn’t 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
Trump’s 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 Pence’s 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 Karen—the 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 governor’s office in Indiana and back to Washington as vice president. This is the inside
story of the Trump administration by its second highest official—what he said to the president
and how he was tested. The relationship begins in Indiana when Pence sees how Trump connects
with working-class 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 twenty-five 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 America’s eager
entrepreneurs the power to come up with the solutions we needed. The result was the fastest
development of life-saving 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.
