Mike Pence, with tears in their eyes make the sad announcement..
He stood at the podium longer than usual before speaking, as if hoping that silence might somehow delay the inevitable. The teleprompter glowed with carefully chosen words, but he scarcely glanced at it. This was not a speech crafted by strategists; it was a confession forged in sleepless nights and private prayers. His hands shook as he acknowledged what he could no longer deny: the cost his public life had exacted on the people he loved most, and the toll that years of political warfare had taken on his own spirit.
