DES MOINES, Iowa—Even “Iowa nice” has an edge these days, but former Vice President Mike Pence, raised in Indiana, knows that Midwest decorum calls for direct, plain-spoken responses to questions, including those that draw hisses and hoots.
Why, asked a man in a Boston Red Sox cap, didn’t the vice president “do his duty to help the president” on Jan. 6, 2021 and reject the 2020 election’s electoral college ballots and send them back to state legislatures as President Donald Trump insisted he do?
