Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives in Las Vegas on October 28, 2023 to deliver a speech at the Republican Jewish Federation’s annual leadership summit.
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WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday he would not support his former boss in the 2024 presidential election.
Pence revealed the decision in an interview with Fox News. “I will not support Donald Trump this year,” the Republican said.
Pence’s announcement came as Trump secured enough Republican delegates this week to clinch the party’s nomination.
Pence said Trump “is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is contradictory to the conservative agenda we have been in power for four years.”
“As I watched his candidacy unfold, I saw him abandon his commitment to our national debt,” Pence said. “I saw him begin to shy away from his commitment to the sanctity of human life.”
Pence also noted that Trump “has taken a tough stance on China and supported our government’s efforts to force the sale of (ByteDance) TikTok.”
Trump’s recent reversing his long-held position On whether TikTok should be allowed to continue operating in the United States under China’s ByteDance.
Pence launched his own presidential campaign against Trump and a host of Republican candidates, but Dropping out of school in October 2023 after his campaign failed to win over Republican primary voters.
Pence added on Friday that he would “never vote for” Democratic President Joe Biden, who also clinched the Democratic nomination. March 12 primary contest.
“I will retain my right to vote,” Pence said.
Pence serves as Trump’s vice president from January 2017 to January 2021.
On January 6, 2021, a group of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, forcing Pence and members of Congress to flee the Senate and House of Representatives.
Trump urged his followers that morning to march to the Capitol to protest the certification of Biden’s victory over him in the 2020 election.
Pence was inside presiding over a joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote when rioters breached the Capitol security fence and attacked law enforcement.
—CNBC’s Dan Mangan reported this article.
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