He’s waiting for the impeachment.
Ignore that super PAC that he’s been funding and the personal power base that Pence has been building. Forget all of those stops to key early Republican primary states that the Vice President has been making.
Pence knows that if Trump thinks that he is out to replace him, the President could very well knock him off of the ticket or even pressure him to resign from the vice presidency, which is why there was lots of sucking up to Trump in the statement.
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Given anyone in Trump’s administration’s relation with the truth, it sounds like a sure bet he’s running.
#Laughable And Absurd
You can’t blame a man for sticking with a winning formula.
He saw how it worked for Trump.
Trouble is, it’s not funny anymore.
Actually, just raising money from the rubes for his legal defense fund.
He just means that by 2020 he’ll already be President.
Not if Maxine Waters gets her way.
Dense misheard Peter Griffin on the “Family Guy” repeat. He meant to say “shallow and pedantic” 
I remember him saying that a lot when confronted with drump quotes.
“Pence Says Suggestion He’s Planning 2020 Run Is ‘Laughable And Absurd’”
The entire Trump administration, the Trump campaign, Trump Organization, and Trump fans are laughable and absurd.
To the public: “Offensive. Categorically false! Absurd! Laughable! Fake news!”
To the NYT off the record:. “My God! Do you think he doesn’t have KAC read stuff for him? Are you trying to get me disappeared!?”
“Any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd,” Pence said.
I’m old enough to remember when this was his answer to “Did anybody from the campaign meet with any Russians?”
“Any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd,” Pence said.
Translation: the internal polling and the investigations are an issue.
"It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham."
"I’m old enough to remember when this was his answer to “Did anybody from the campaign meet with any Russians?”
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/894278644746653697
Three things happen …
#1 … the memory begins to fail ----
and …shucks ! … I’ve forgotten the other two — 
My hope is he’s right, that it is ‘laughable and absurd’ for him to plan a 2020 run…
…after he resigns along with Trump.
But if Trump kicked Pence out, then it would only increase Mike’s chances of winning. Association with this presidency is not likely to be a benefit. It might even position Mike to primary Trump if Donald should last so long.