Pence is the VP which constitutionally has next to no power (Lookup VP John Nance) President-elect Trump will be running the executive via his cabinet appointments. It'll be Governor Christie, who's running the transition and finding those cabinet appointments, that you should be pinning your hopes on.
Yeee-es, but then would you say Cheney had no power?
The only difference between Trump and Pence is that Pence is more qualified to execute the horrible promises they've made.