Former US VP Mike Pence Challenges Trump in 2024 Presidential Election

JABAR EKPRES – Former US Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday officially kicked off his campaign for the 2024 presidential election, vowing to transform the US to respect the constitution and conservative values.

Pence’s candidacy adds to the list of Republican Party cadres vying to be appointed to represent their party in the November 2024 US presidential election.

Pence said he is ready to challenge his former boss, Trump, with whom he worked in the White House for four years until 2021. The pair served as US president and vice president from 2017-2021.

Pence became the first vice president in modern US politics to challenge his former running mate.

“Today our party and our country need a leader who will appeal to, as Lincoln said, ‘the better nature of the angels within us’,” Pence said in a video released Wednesday ahead of his campaign in Iowa.

Iowa is the first US state to go to the polls to determine the Republican presidential nominee.

In his speech to supporters, Pence said that Trump had forced him to choose between being president at the time and the constitution, following their defeat in the 2020 election.

“Anyone who puts themselves above the constitution should not be president of the United States, and anyone who asks others to put themselves above the constitution should not be president of the United States again,” Pence said.

Since leaving office, Pence, a conservative who also served as an Indiana congressman and governor, has kept his distance from Trump.

In March, he made scathing comments about the former president’s role in the January 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Pence, 64, said at the time that Trump’s orders against Capitol rioters and his rash words leading up to the attack had “endangered my family and everyone in the Capitol that day.”

Among the Republican presidential hopefuls, polls show that only Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have achieved double-digit support.

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