Pence would remind his audience what was at stake in the coming election. He would claim that their beloved nation was slipping away. Then, in a solemn tone, he would tell them it wasn’t too late. “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,” Pence would say, quoting God’s voice in the Second Book of Chronicles, “then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” The crowd would roar in response.
