Mike Pence Won’t Endorse Donald Trump in 2024
“As I have watched his candidacy unfold, I’ve seen him walking away from our commitment to confronting the national debt, I’ve seen him starting to shy away from a commitment to the sanctity of human life.”
Mike Pence will not endorse Donald Trump:
PENCE: “Well, Martha, I appreciate the question. It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year. Look, I’m incredibly proud of the record of our administration. It was a conservative record that made America more prosperous, more secure and saw conservatives appointed to our courts in a more peaceful world. But that being said, during my presidential campaign, I made it clear that there were profound differences between me and President Trump on a range of issues. And not just our difference on my constitutional duties that I exercised on January 6th. As I have watched his candidacy unfold, I’ve seen him walking away from our commitment to confronting the national debt, I’ve seen him starting to shy away from a commitment to the sanctity of human life.”
Pence: I will not be endorsing Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/YJIuTBjzNR
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 15, 2024
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Oh, no!
Anyway…
Mike Pence could not stand living in Trump’s shadow. He was irrelevant as VP, even less so today. Just another political snake.
Don’t downplay this, it’s huge. The millions of Pence supporters will probably go to Jill Stein now.
All six
Dr. Scott Atlas has a podcast and has been discussing his tenure on the Covid Task Force. However poorly you think of Pence, Fauci & Brix, if you spend some time listening to that podcast you’ll really get some idea about what a horribly useless person Mike Pence is. Additionally, if you want to find who were the most duplicitous, backstabbing traitors in the Trump administration, you needn’t look any further than Mike Pence’s staff. He did nothing but undermine Trump from day one. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Someone today at work took a poll on Pence. Incredibly, there was exactly a 50-50 split of opinion on him.
Half the people hated him like poison — the other half just hated him regular.
I have always believed that , ever since Mike Flynn
He was paid well
Mike’s right. He should go with Biden. Biden’s great on all those things.
That’s what’s so utterly idiotic about the pearl-clutching ‘principles’ crap.
It’s Trump or Biden (or, if you believe that Biden is going to be replaced, then another Democrat that will be even worse).
Because Pence knows that the Democrats have such a great track record on the national debt and the sanctity of human life.
Pence doesn’t give twoshits about either of those things. Those are just the excuses he uses to publicly justify his BS. Funny how he never spoke out against McConnell or McCarthy and their insane spending bills that raised the national debt that’s suddenly so sacred to him.
Absolutely NOBODY cares, you RINO jackass.
You have no influence and no relevance. Just shut up and go away.
Pences’s lack of endorsement is a plus in my mind.
Pence isn’t one of the good guys. He’s another pig at the trough trying to get “his.”
I don’t get it. Wasn’t he just reported as getting high by eating marijuana evidence stored at New Orleans Police headquarters? Now he’s on Fox? With a tie and suit?
That was yesterday. This is today.
I see what you did there. LOL!
Big surprise.
like Haley, an ingrate and a loser
Just for fun, and to save myself some work, can anyone come up with a list of politicos that a naive and non-politico Trump honored with positions of importance who subsequently stabbed him in the back?? Haley, Pence, Bolton, Barr, make the short list. Sadly, I think the list of ingrates is much, much longer.
I think Pensacola leads the pack
Followed by Barr then Bolton.. Haley last.
Pretty much every last one of them. The only one I can think of who showed any ounce of loyalty was Ben Carson.
Mike Pompeo
Oh no, he actually ran against President Trump and said some not so kind words
Add Sessions, Rosenstein and Wray in DOJ and the prominence he gave Fauci. (Pompeo was one of the few good picks.) But, the bottom line is that Trump picked them all and IMO especially because of the DOJ ones and Fauci is not now President. Without the lockdown, which originally was going to be something like 15 days, we would have had far fewer changes in voting rules, which may beat him yet again this year. Trump did it to himself and I have seen little evidence he learns from experience, or can admit a mistake. As Ken Langone said on FOX this evening, Biden is the worst President in history, but can’t this country come up with better choices than we face.
What’s maddening about Haley is that as the UN Ambassador she was fucking awesome!
She said all the right things. What the hell happened to her?
Pense I hate auto correct.
Yeah no pence got 1% vote, he’s not “influencer” on the election. Enjoy retirement.
I believe Pence is a jerk
An ingrate a traitor..
the only job he is qualified for is picking
Up dog poop in Ind. in the winter.
How did the book he wrote do
(They ALL wright books.)
Not sure why he is on TV unless the talk circuits are not interested in him.
Think about it. Trump didn’t just give Pence a slap on the back. He made him the Vice President of The United States of America. He didn’t just smile and shake Nikki Haley’s hand, he made her the Ambassador to the United Nations. He nominated and secured Bill Barr as Attorney General. None of them, not one of them, had any problem whatsoever accepting those positions.
Spot on.
They betrayed Trump, betrayed their voters.
If you want loyalty, get a dog. The whole concept that one politician should be loyal to another is insane and naive. Trump’s belief in personal loyalty bit him in the ass and is still chewing today. Why did he select the remarkably average Jess Sessions as AG? Loyalty. All that did was result in a special counsel and ultimately the loss of the Senate because of Georgia. Trump may be a lot of things, but one thing he really sucks at is picking staff.
Each one of them are ingrates. I would never trust any of them.
Beltway snakes.
No surprise, no effect. In the booth he will most likely vote for Trump.
Nope he will vote Kennedy or Biden
Cuz they r not Trump
Too often people who profess to be deeply religious turn out to be terrible people.
Still on the fence about Trump voting….Pence’s endorsement has zero bearing on my decision and probably that of most if not all conservative voters.
There is no conservative voter who has any doubt that a vote for Trump is the only sane, reasonable vote there is. I don’t even know what to say (within the bounds of this site) about anyone who is “on the fence” over this upcoming election. How anyone can look at the Barky years and what Traitor Joe and his junta have been doing and have any question, at all, about the upcoming vote??
Exactly and I accidetgave him an upvote many down
There is no fence in this election
It’s President Trump or America is done , as we all are
It depends what state you’re in. If Pence were in a swing state, I have not the slightest doubt that he would hold his nose and vote for Trump in November. Ditto for healthguy.
But in a state where your vote cannot possibly affect the result, you have the luxury of not holding your nose.
There’s the possibility of not voting. I will never vote for Biden.
And before you say that’s not an option either…we heard from Trumpers for months that they would stay home if they didn’t get their way.
Behold the principles, everyone! fsu will dazzle the communists with his magnanimity!
Pence and General Milley were leadership-tier fifth columnists.
the sad part is that Trump appointed both
He had to take recommendations, he had no experience with the good bs bad republicans. He really was a Democrat , independent morally but had to pay the pauper to get stuff done.
These are all turtles recommendations and other traitors
A totally insignificant non-endorsement.
I think every one of you should read your own comments and then spend a few minutes thinking what you said. Wow. Talk about brain-dead.
White-knighting for Pence is on brand for you, tx.
Pence really turned out to be an unmitigated worm of the lowest order. I don’t know how he lives with himself, frankly.
Pence/Cheney 2024. I can feel the tidal wave of support building already
I was all set to register as an Independent in 2016 because of disgust with the GOP but then Trump came along and I stayed as a Republican. Today turn coats such as Pence have made me rethink the decision.
Donald Trump’s inability during his first term to make reasonable (let alone solid) personnel choices and his propensity to appoint backstabbing saboteurs and outright foes to his innermost circle was the greatest single failure of his presidency.
– Srdja Trifkovic (via derb)
This is an important point. Either Trump (whom I have twice voted for and will do so again in November) did a bad job of vetting his appointees or he somehow turned them against him after they were on board. In either event, it damaged his presidency.
The important issue is what Trump has learned. Assuming that he wins and that the Republicans take control of the congress, he needs to be ready to go with 1,200 recess appointments on Inauguration Day and the 1,200 Biden incumbents need to be escorted off the premises by the close of business that same day (there’s plenty of time to do the “transition” between November and January–no sense keeping 1,200 Sally Yates around one minute longer than necessary). He wasn’t ready in 2017 and Chuck Schumer (with a wink and a nod from McConnell) slow played the process of getting a team in place. And don’t forget to fire the political appointees who “burrow” into “civil service” jobs.
A critical second step is to reform the civil service. It’s turned into an unaccountable blob of career leftist politicians who are incapable of getting elected to office and instead rule through the administrative state (a/k/a the “deep state” or the “swap”). The Constitution vests all executive powers in the President–which includes the unbridled right to select his team. Civil service is a leftist’s dream–fix it.
They like to call themselves “Civil Servants”
Reserve only themselves
The same service the bull provides the cow.
It’s no different from 2016. You have a choice between a loose cannon and a planet buster fusion bomb. The choice requires no intelligence at all.
I think it would take an antimatter bomb to destroy a planet with just one device. We can make small amounts of antimatter, but are nowhere near being able to use it in quantity. We may have the ability to use directed kinetic devices in the next 10-20 years.
I would argue, for a businessman, signing a CR instead of a budget all four years, would be right up there.
IMO Trump was also hurt by his own family, especially Kushner. The latter reportedly got Trump to get rid of Chris Christie as head of Trump’s transition team and not appoint CC as Attorney General, a job he wanted and would have been good at, because CC, as Federal prosecutor, had put Kushenr’s father in prison. Trump allowed himself to be “knee-capped” by his own family. right at the start. JFK picking his brother and Obama picking Holder knew how important the AG pick was – and Trump picks Sessions, then Rosenstein and Wray.
Who?
He is a televangelist with a haircut and a shave.
So much for honoring your pledges…
“Race” Bannon declines endorsing Trump.
Maybe there will be a Johnny Quest remake and he can do cameos or voice overs.
Notice how the RINO arm of the GOP is doing all it can to torpedo the GOP’s chances in 2024. They are going so far as to turn the house over to the left.
Because the GOP would rather burn the nation to the ground so their, “good friends across the aisle,” can rule over the ashes.
My opinion of Pence has degraded slowly at first and then precipitously since he left office. In retrospect, he was instrumental in the largest blunders of the Trump administration: the firing of Mike Flynn and the COVID task force. The house cleaning that needed to happen never occurred because the one man who knew where the bodies were buried and was motivated to remove the bad actors was taken out of play before he could even start, all because he “lied to the Vice-President.” Pence was instrumental in relying on Anthony Fauci to set official policy on COVID.
I can assume that his choices were merely wrong-headed, but it’s difficult to see how they would have been different if he had been an insider bad actor. I’m still curious as to how and why things played out exactly as they did on January 6, 2021 as regards to Pence. Trump’s tweets about it were shocking and outrageous, but given what else I know, I’m starting to wonder if there was an understanding that Pence didn’t honor.
I have no doubt that Pence hopes Trump beats Biden in November, and that if he were in a swing state he would vote for him. But there is no need for him to endorse him; it’s not as if anyone who would be swayed by Pence’s endorsement is likely to vote for Biden, or to stay home if they’re in a swing state. In such circumstances an endorsement is a moral investment, and Pence is too honest to do that when it’s not needed. He’s correctly saying that Trump is a bad candidate, the worst candidate except for all the others. He should return to the White House next year, but when he inevitably does bad things there (and he will, just not nearly as many as Biden would) Pence doesn’t want any of the blame.