More than 30 million Americans say they've never heard of Mike Pence

Mike Pence.
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Sure, about 40 percent of American adults say they approve of President Trump in the newest CNN poll out Monday. But that's nothing new.

A more intriguing data point is that 12 percent of American adults say they've "never heard of" Vice President Mike Pence, as CNN's Ryan Struyk noted from the poll. By the most recent census estimates, that's 30,387,311 fully grown adults who are unaware of the second most powerful politician in the country.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.