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NEW: Mike and Karen Pence are homeless and appear to be couch surfing their way through Indiana by @tomlobianco ($) in @Politicsinsider businessinsider.com/mike-pence-hom…

The speakers set up on the tarmac of the Columbus Municipal Airport belted out the Hoosier State's unofficial song — "Back Home Again in Indiana" — when Mike Pence landed there last week for the first time since he became a former vice president.

"I've already promised Karen we'll be moving back to Indiana come this summer," Pence told the assembled crowd in his hometown that's a little less than an hour's drive south of Indianapolis. "There's no place like home."

But careful Pence watchers couldn't help but notice he never said where "home" will be.

"He doesn't have a home, he doesn't have anywhere to live," one advisor to former President Donald Trump told Insider.

The Trump advisor is one of a dozen Republicans close with Pence's inner circle who were vexed that a former vice president of the United States now has neither a home nor a job. Some even wondered if the Pences are now couch-surfing.

According to one source, the Pences are staying at the dolled-up cabin nearby that the Indiana governor uses as a retreat. If so, they'd need permission to spend the night from Pence's former lieutenant governor, who now serves as governor, Eric Holcomb.

Two Republicans close to the Pences said they heard that the former second couple was staying at Pence's brother's place in Columbus.

The one thing everyone is certain of is that when the Pences moved out of the vice president's residence at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, they had nowhere to go. The former second couple doesn't actually own a house.

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