Mike Pence will not support Donald Trump, former Vice President said deep differences
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday he will not endorse Donald Trump for another term in the White House, saying his former boss has strayed too far from conservative philosophy.Mike Pence will not support Donald Trump, former Vice President said deep differences.
“It should be no surprise that I will not be supporting Donald Trump this year,” Pence told Fox News’ Martha McCallum.
Pence, who was attacked by Trump in January 2021 after rejecting pressure from the then-president to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election, said, “I and President Trump have a deep disagreement on a number of issues, “Not just on my constitutional issue, we have a difference of opinion.” “The duties which I performed on January 6.”
Pence’s comments underscore Trump’s problems with some Republican voters. Supporters of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley have said they will not support Trump and Haley herself has refused to support the former president. While Trump is still poised to win the vast majority of GOP voters, even small numbers of defections could make a difference in closely contested states.
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Pence, the former governor of Indiana, launched his presidential bid this year, but he quickly fell behind in a primary contest dominated by Trump, with Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis taking away the campaign’s remaining oxygen.Mike Pence will not support Donald Trump, former Vice President said deep differences.
“Look, I’m extremely proud of our administration’s record,” Pence said Friday. “It was a conservative record that made America more prosperous,
more secure and saw conservatives appointed to our courts and a more peaceful world.”
But that wasn’t enough to convince Pence to hop on the 2024 MAGA train.
Pence also said he would not vote for President Joe Biden. He will not say who he will vote for in the presidential election.
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“I mean, as I’ve watched his candidacy unfold, I’ve seen him move away from our commitment to confronting the national debt,” he said. “I have watched him begin to shy away from a commitment to the sanctity of human life, and, last week, he has reneged on our support of our administration’s effort to be tough on China and the sale of TikTok.”
Pence was escorted to a secret, secure location on the Capitol complex as rioting Trump supporters — some shouting “Hang Mike Pence!” – The attack was carried out on January 6, 2021, disrupting the certification of Biden’s election.
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what needed to be done,” Trump tweeted at 2:24 that afternoon.
Pence said Trump has strayed far from the goals of conservative leaders.
“Donald Trump is advancing and articulating an agenda that is contrary to the conservative agenda on which we have governed during our four years,” Pence said. “And that’s why I can’t in good conscience support Donald Trump in this campaign.”