No more than two dozen Iowans had come to C & C Machining in Centerville to hear the last Republican vice president as he pursues his party’s nomination for president.
And the ones who showed weren’t so sure how many G.O.P.
voters still believed in a gospel that his former running mate, Donald J. Trump, has spent eight years rendering largely obsolete.
“The old conservative Republicanism, those are my ideals,” Art Kirchoff, 53, an insurance agency owner, said approvingly to explain why he would vote for Mr. Pence in the Iowa caucuses this January.
He had come at the behest of the machine shop’s owner, Gaylon Cowan, a friend, and, Mr. Kirchoff conceded, he wasn’t sure how many of his kind are left in the party.
Persons:
Mike Pence, Iowans, Donald J, Trump, Kirchoff, approvingly, Pence, Gaylon Cowan, “, ”
Organizations:
Social Security, Republican
Locations:
Centerville, Iowa