Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday he will not be endorsing his former boss Donald Trump in the 2024 general election.
Appearing on Fox News, Pence said he “cannot in good conscience” back Trump as there are “profound differences” between their views on various issues.
Pence, who unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination, declined to reveal who he plans to vote for in November but he said he would “never” vote for President Joe Biden.
“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence said after being asked by Fox News host Martha MacCallum.
Pence slammed Trump for pursuing an agenda that is “at odds with the conservative agenda” the two abided by during their administration.
“Look, I’m incredibly proud of the record of our administration,” Pence said. “It was a conservative record that made America more prosperous, more secure and saw conservatives appointed to our courts in a more peaceful world.”
“That being said, during my presidential campaign, I made it clear there were profound differences between me and President Trump on a range of issues, not just our difference on my constitutional duties that I exercised on Jan. 6,” Pence said.
Pence said Trump’s stance on the national deficit, his position on abortion and most recently his reversal on the TikTok ban are among his reasons for not endorsing his former running mate, in addition to what unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump’s pressure on Pence to reject the 2020 election results (which Pence said endangered his family’s life on Jan. 6) prompted a rift in their relationship, and prompted Pence to argue on the campaign trial that his efforts to overturn his election loss should be disqualifying.
Asked who he plans to vote for in the general election, Pence said, “Like most Americans, I’m going to keep my vote to myself.”
“I would never vote for Joe Biden,” Pence said when asked if he would vote for Biden. “How I vote when that curtain closes, that will be for me.”
Pence dismissed the idea of backing a third-party candidate or himself running as a third-party candidate, saying “I’m a Republican.”
Later on in the interview, when asked if he’d run as third-party candidate, Pence more clearly dismissed that idea, saying, “I’m a Republican.”
Pence acknowledged the fact that Republican primary voters have made their choice clear, and said he plans to spend the rest of the year pushing for “what we should be for.”
“Republican primary voters have made it clear, Martha, who they’re for in this election,” Pence said. “What I’m going to spend the rest of the year is talking about what we should be for – the broad mainstream conservative agenda that has defined our party and always made America strong and prosperous and free.”
On the campaign trail, Pence never directly ruled out voting for Trump in 2024 but repeatedly said, “I don’t think I’ll have to.”
He argued Republicans would select a “new standard bearer” before Trump this week secured enough delegates to presumptively be the GOP nominee.
After warning against what he called the “siren song of populism,” Pence’s political advocacy organization, Advancing American Freedom, announced plans last month to invest $20 million in a program intended to uphold conservatism as “bigger than any one moment, election, or person” — in a not so thinly-veiled swipe against Trump and CPAC.
After Pence suspended his campaign in October last year, Trump urged his former running mate to endorse him, saying he “made him vice president” and that he “had a successful presidency.”
Trump also complained about “disloyalty” in politics, a topic Trump had frequently mentioned earlier this election cycle while attacking former 2024 rivals like Floria Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
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May the best thing for Pence to do is to stay away from tv. Go to church lots and STFU 🤬
You are so right, TheRedhawk. Pence needs to get over his self importance. President Trump, sure had a lot of backstabbing, self loving people on his first staff. Hope he doesn’t make that mistake again!
Copy that
You are much better man than trump who tried to over though the government
Pence is an honorable, decent American. Unlike draft dodging, rapist, lier, egotistical, Putin admirer, Donald T Rump. I would vote for him.
Have you any idea how uninformed and stupid you are ??
Seems to me you are not only uninformed, but also ignorant about what you do not know.
There is incredible amount of documentation, including videos and audio recording of Trump guilt……BUT, it takes REAL men to admit when they are wrong.
MAGA people remind me of those men and women that are in a destructive relationship, are afraid of walking away and come up with all sort of excuses to justify their lack of self-respect.
But did he invite criminals via open borders
Hug gas prices ? Higher food prices? Even higher mortgage rates ? Transportation disasters ? Wars?
Try not to let the truth bunch your panty hose
Pence is a good decent man. I hope he runs for President.
No, Pence will vote for Biden! They are like 2 peas in a pod. Pence will never be President! He can only bash the best President we have ever had in my lifetime, that made promises and kept those promises.
Pence is a little boy crying behind the barn all because he lost a marbles game.
Democ🐀instead create fears via economic incompetence and illegal invitations of criminals —- FACT
The Republican establishment have no spine. Trump almost allow Pence to get lynch for doing his job…why would Pence endorsed Trump?
Nevertheless, Cruz (insulted by Trump including wife and late father did), MCConnell did, So did Little Rubio and DeSantimonius. Maybe the ought to put country ahead of party loyalty….
Biden has done well, Economy is good, unemployment is down below 4%, infrastructure is getting investment, we are the world largest oil producer, people are not dying and the smart one vaccinated and we are investing in technology to keep us ahead of the Chinese……Democrats are good at governing BUT not very good at parroting their successes. Republicans are great at stoking fears , hate and giving tax breaks to the wealthy…not so good at doing what is right for the country.
Democrat successes?? Businesses are closing in Democrat run cities because crime is out of control, homelessness is rampant, illegal aliens are pouring over our southern border, inflation and prices keep rising, etc. I drive down the streets in my own city and see many vacant storefronts where there were once thriving businesses. Are you delusional??
Your facts filled posts will give agita to Democ🐀s bastrds who only believe that their lies are their truths
And then there are the other Democrat successes(?), other than economic, Using the Justice Department to target and jail conservatives, support of and excusing the riots caused by Black Lives Matter and jailing the protesters of January 6 (including the killing of one unarmed woman), wokeness, males competing in female athletic events, the concept that gender is fluid with sex change operations on children, etc. The list goes on. ,
And the Chinese are buying up our farmland.