Republican politician Mike Pence, former vice president of the United States, announced this Saturday that he has abandoned his campaign to run for president of the country.
“After much prayer and reflection, I have decided today to suspend my campaign for president. We always knew it would be an uphill battle, but I have no regrets,” Mike Pence said in Las Vegas, Nevada, at a Jewish community meeting. Republican Coalition.
With this decision, Mike Pence becomes the first major Republican candidate to withdraw from the race, just a few months before the start of the presidential primaries in the United States, and with Donald Trump as the main candidate, with whom he was president (2017). . -2021).
Primaries will begin in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina early next year.
Mike Pence, 64, resigns at a time when he has just over a million dollars in his campaign account and has reported more than 620,000 dollars (about 600,000 euros) in debts. Initially he had only raised 3.3 million dollars (about three million euros) for the electoral race.
The former vice president is also dealing with the fact that he failed to qualify for the third debate between Republican candidates in the primary, scheduled for November 8 in Miami.
Source: TSF
