Caught in the “Ceasefire”

In 2008, the ten-year-old son of Rahm Emanuel, then a Democratic congressman, bet Mike Pence, then a Republican congressman, that Barack Obama would carry Pence’s home state of Indiana in that year’s Presidential election. Pence lost the bet—ten dollars—but never paid up. “Every time I see him, I tease him,” Emanuel recounted recently. “ ‘You owe ten plus cumulative interest.’ ” Emanuel was seated at a table with Pence for a joint appearance on “Ceasefire,” a new C- SPAN show. Teasing aside, the pair bathed each other in mutual respect. Emanuel said that, off camera, they had asked after each other’s children, some of whom are in the armed forces, leading Dasha Burns, the host, to dub them “parents before partisans.” At the end of the show, Burns flashed a photo of Pence trying to hand E