Susan Glasser spoke with Olivia Troye, the former aide to Vice President Mike Pence, who said she was voting for Joe Biden because of President Trump’s bungled coronavirus pandemic response.

“In the end, this is what struck me most during my conversation with Troye: she is young, only forty-three years old, with a long career ahead of her, and she was willing to put it all on the line publicly, whereas people like Mattis and Kelly were not… Troye, with much more to lose—and with none of the stature of a former member of Congress or a former Marine general—had much more courage than all of them.”