I ' ve got to 2 nd you here . Pence ' s policies and track record are an absolute disaster , and I consider him to be a reprehensible human being . . . but he ' s still a politician playing political games . He ' s much more of a known quantities and there are limits to what he will do . Trump on the otherhand is a complete wildcard , he doesn ' t play by rules , he plays by his own whims , and considering he , like all narcissists , is completely hollow inside and needs to constantly fill that void with adulation and whatever buffoonery he thinks will get him attention in that moment he could very well be capable of anything , and absolutely will never own up to anything . Pence may be evil , but he understands politics you can have leverage against a man like that . You can ' t have leverage against Trump , he doesn ' t plan ahead , can be thrown into an existential crisis by a nasty tweet , and there ' s basically no depth of self debasement that he won ' t sink to in order to make himself feel better .