Former Vice-President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence do not have a home now that he’s out of a job and moved back to Indiana.
Republicans close to Mike Pence say they do not know where the former second couple is now residing since they moved out of the US Naval Observatory in Washington last week.
Part of the mystery surrounding the Pences’ address is due to security reason.
“Republicans who spoke with Business Insider said they wondered whether Pence and his team are closely guarding their new domicile because of the wave of death threats he faced just three weeks ago,” the report said. “The Trump-incited mob that stormed the Capitol earlier this month shouted that they wanted to hang Pence, and some of the people came within about 100 feet of confronting him and his family as they were hurried to a secure location in the Capitol.”
Security is no doubt an issue. But, some of it is due to the fact that Mike and Karen Pence have not owned a home in a decade.
A source told Business Insider that the Pences are staying in a dolled-up cabin that Indiana’s governor Eric Holcomb uses as a retreat. Two Republicans close to Pence say they heard the couple was staying at Pence’s brother’s place in Columbus.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Holcomb did not respond to questions about the Pences staying at his retreat.
No one knows anything except that when Mike and Karen Pence left Washington last week they had nowhere to go and now they are wondering if the former Vice-President of the United States and his wife are couch-surfing.
“He would not have a house, he would not have anyplace to dwell,” one former advisor to Donald Trump told Business Insider.
According to Insider, Mike Pence’s housing situation was a bit of political trivia in Indiana for years. Some have even joked that he has been the beneficiary of public housing for eight years.
The couple sold their single family home in 1987 to move into Indiana’s then-second congressional district which Pence would later represent in Congress starting in 2000. They lived in Washington until 2013, when he head back to Indiana and successfully ran for governor. He lived in the Governor’s mansion until 2017 when he was elected on the ticket as VP with Donald Trump.
Pence is reportedly eyeing a leadership position at any one of the country’s top Christian schools, including Liberty University where they have an opening for president since Jerry Falwel Jr. stepped down last year.
