Pence treads carefully with Trump

Former Vice President Mike Pence has a Trump problem, strategists and officials in the former president’s orbit say. 

For Pence to successfully carve out a path to the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, he must simultaneously win over swaths of former President Trump’s base and create distance from the former president to chart a new path forward, while not creating so much distance that he angers his old boss.

Pence earlier this week offered a window into how he may try to pull off the delicate balancing act during an interview with Sean Hannity on...