(Samuel Corum | The New York Times) Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in Rockville, Md., June 30, 2020. "Pence is very, very conservative on social issues — or at least as conservative as it's possible to be when your running mate is a well-known former womanizer who conducted his adulterous affair with one future wife on the front pages of the New York tabloids," writes New York Times columnist Gail Collins.