Former US Vice President Mike Pence vowed that “the best days of the greatest nation in the world are yet to come,” in a video released this Wednesday to launch his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2024 US presidential election.
“Different times call for different leadership”said the video Mike Pence, who was Vice President during the Donald Trump administration (2017-2021).
The video was released by American television. Fox news and on Twitter hours before the launch of the first candidacy in Iowa state capital Des Moines.
I believe in the American people and I have faith that God is not done with America yet. Together we can bring this country back, and the best days for the greatest nation on Earth are yet to come! #Pence2024 pic.twitter.com/A8EkqgCDAm
-Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) June 7, 2023
“Today our party and country need a leader who, as Lincoln said, calls upon the better angels of our nature”he declared.
Although it “easy to be on the sidelines, that’s not how I was raised. That is why I am announcing today, before God and my family, that I am running for President of the United States.”stated the former vice president.
Mike Pence is one of several candidates for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination, including former President Donald Trump, who leads in early polls on voting intentions, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who remains second in the polls. polls.
Also in the running for the Republican nomination are former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, and South Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. launched his candidacy on Wednesday. .
Mike Pence becomes the first vice president in modern history to run against his former administration partner, Donald Trump.
Pence and his advisers see Iowa – the state that will cast the first votes on the Republican Party’s nomination calendar – as key to his possible path to the presidential nomination.
In this state, a large portion of voters are evangelical Christians, a constituency that naturally favors Pence, a conservative who supports a nationwide ban on abortion and regularly speaks out about his beliefs.
His adviser thinks Pence, who was in Congress to represent Indiana and was governor of the same state, would be a good choice for Iowa voters.
Pence’s campaign will also test the party’s penchant for a socially conservative, educated and deeply religious candidate, to show whether the party has a political future beyond January 6, 2021, when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington.
Trump supporters believed the lies spread by the former president about alleged fraud in the 2020 presidential election and that Pence had the power to overturn the results of the suffrage won by then Democratic nominee and current president Joe Biden.
Pence is seen by Trump critics as an accomplice to his most indefensible actions and defamed as a traitor by Trump supporters, garnering mostly unfavorable reviews.
A CNN television poll last month found that 45% of Republicans and Republican independents said they would not support Pence under any circumstances. Only 16% of respondents said the same about Trump.
Shortly after leaving office in June 2021, 86% of Iowa Republicans said they favored Pence. But a poll by The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll in March showed the number had dropped to 66%.
Only 58% of Iowa evangelicals said they had a positive view of Pence — a disappointing number given the strategy of his campaign.
Source: DN
