Mike Pence, the 48th Vice President of the United States of America – from 2017 to 2021, during the presidency of Donald Trump – refused to support his former candidate, former President Donald Trump, in his announcement on Friday, according to what the British newspaper “Daily Mail” reported. the Fox News.
Between 2017 and 2021 Donald Trump The Republican politician, who holds the position of Vice President, announced his decision to “suspend his campaign” at the annual Republican Jewish Coalition leadership conference in Las Vegas, effectively withdrawing from the race. The Republican Jewish Organization event was attended by politicians competing for the party's presidential nomination, including Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Nikki Haley.
The January 6, 2021 riots are remembered as the siege of the United States Capitol, when supporters of Donald Trump protested the results of the 2020 presidential election in Washington, supporting Trump's demand for Vice President Mike Pence and Congress to reject the president-elect. ., Joe Biden's victory.
Former Vice President Mike Pence's relationship with Donald Trump soured after the incident, who blamed Pence for refusing to return the disputed electoral rolls to the state legislature in his role as Senate president at the time.
Not surprisingly, I'm not supporting Donald Trump this year
Pence said on Fox News' The Story.
“I am extremely proud of the accomplishments of our administration. It was a conservative record that made America more prosperous and safer, and put governors on our courts in a more peaceful world,” the former vice president said.
Pence repeated his claim that under the Electoral Census Act of 1887, contrary to what Trump and some of his supporters have claimed, he does not have the authority to return disputed voter rolls to state lawmakers.
“We have disagreements about my constitutional duties that I exercised on January 6, 2021,” Pence said, adding that Trump’s 2024 campaign portrays him as shirking conservatives’ commitments to reducing the national debt and “the sanctity of human life.”
Development in the TikTok case
Mike Pence noted that Trump's recent comments on China and his opposition to banning TikTok in the United States also represent a turning point in his strong opposition to Chinese-controlled social media.
There was a major shift last week to get tough on China and support our government's efforts to force the sale of ByteDance and TikTok
said the former vice president.
Trump said Monday that the Gallagher-Krishnamoorth TikTok bill, which some have described as a “ban,” would only strengthen Facebook's parent company, Meta, with which he disagreed over the former president's views that the social media company censors conservatives and anti-establishment thinking. .
I consider Facebook to be the enemy of the people
Trump told CNBC as part of his TikTok comment.
When Mike Pence was asked on The Story why Trump changed his mind about TikTok, he said he couldn't speculate specifically. He reiterated that he believes Trump is following a program that “is inconsistent with the conservative agenda” that the two men promoted during his four years in office.
Trump recently revived his previously close relationship with the conservative Club for Growth, noting that one of his top supporters, Jeffrey Yass — the richest man in Pennsylvania — owns a 15 percent stake in ByteDance, Politico reported. But Trump said he and Yas were talking about school choice, not TikTok, when the two met at a recent donor meeting, according to FOX Business.
He respects this year's Republican nominee
In the story, Pence said regardless of his support or not, Republican voters have made it clear that Trump is their choice this year.
I'll spend the rest of the year talking about what we should do. The prevailing broad conservative agenda has defined our party and has always kept America strong, prosperous, and free.
said Pence, who also dismissed speculation about a third-party candidacy, despite his distaste for Trump's candidacy. “I'm a Republican, Martha,” he told Martha MacCallum, host of Fox News Channel's The Story.
Pence also confirmed that he would not vote for President Biden under any scenario.
Former US Vice President Mike Pence said: “How I vote in the booth when the curtain comes down is up to me.”
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