![]() ![]() ![]() WATCH: Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on how GOP candidates are taking on Trump Now he treats it as an inconvenience, even blaming election losses on overturning Roe v. “The sanctity of life has been our party’s calling for half a century - long before Donald Trump was ever a part of it. “After leading the most pro-life administration in American history, Donald Trump and others in this race are retreating from the cause of the unborn,” Pence will say. Trump has declined to say what limits he supports nationally and has blamed some midterm candidates’ extreme rhetoric for their losses last November. Pence, who supports a national ban on abortion, will also criticize Trump’s current rhetoric on the topic, even after Trump appointed the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. “It’s not too much to ask our leaders to do the same.” “Most Americans treat each other with kindness and respect – even when we disagree,” he will say. Pence will criticize leaders who can’t “distinguish between starting fights and finishing them.” WATCH: Chris Christie positions himself as alternative to Trump as he launches presidential bid “Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States, and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president again.” Now voters will be faced with the same choice,” Pence will say. “The American people deserve to know on that fateful day, President Trump also demanded I choose between him and our Constitution. Pence, according to excepts released by his campaign, will tell an audience in the Des Moines suburbs that Trump betrayed his voters’ trust after the 2020 election when he tried to convince his supporters that Pence had the power to keep them in office. The event is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. 6, his temperament and abortion on Wednesday as he became the first vice president in modern history to challenge his former running mate. Pence routinely touts the accomplishments of the “Trump-Pence administration” but has sought to distance himself from his former boss, especially over Trump’s backward focus on the 2020 election he falsely claims was rigged and stolen rather than on the future.ANKENY, Iowa (AP) - Mike Pence opened his presidential bid with an unusually forceful critique of former President Donald Trump over Jan. Asked in the ABC interview why Trump wasn’t making those calls, Pence replied, “That’d be a good question for him.” The former president has asserted that he did nothing wrong. Testimony during the House committee hearings on the insurrection revealed that Trump was watching news coverage of the riot and didn’t call on anyone to intervene. It was clear he decided to be part of the problem.” “The president’s words that day at the rally endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building,” Pence told ABC. Pence called Trump’s rhetoric at a rally right before the insurrection “reckless” and that he was “angered” by a Trump tweet that his vice president didn’t have the courage to do what must be done – posted while the assault on the Capitol was underway and Pence and his family were fleeing the rioters. In the ABC interview, Pence described the harrowing experience for him and his family during the riot and his determination to remain at the Capitol to fulfil his constitutional duty to certify the electoral count electing Biden. Pence refused Trump’s demand that he reject votes for Joe Biden in key swing states, prompting a mob of Trump supporters to storm the US Capitol, some of them chanting, “Hang Mike Pence”. Pence has broken with Trump over whether he had the authority to overturn the 2020 presidential election when he oversaw the counting of Electoral College votes. His memoir, So Help Me God, was released Tuesday in the US, and he will embark on a book tour. Pence has campaigned for candidates in midterm election races around the country, delivered policy speeches and raised money for his advocacy group Advancing American Freedom. Pence said that’s up to the American people to decide but “I think we’ll have better choices in the future.” The former vice president added that he’s giving “prayerful consideration” to running in 2024, and if that means challenging his former boss, “so be it”. Trump just filed the paperwork to show he is running again, and Pence, whose book describing his falling out with the former president was just published, was asked in an ABC News interview broadcast on Monday whether he thinks Trump deserves to be president again after the January 6, 2021, insurrection.įormer US president Donald Trump and former vice president Mike Pence. Former US vice president Mike Pence said he was considering a run for president in 2024 a day before Donald Trump announced his White House bid and that he thinks “we’ll have better choices” than the former president.
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