Former United States Vice President Mike Pence presents his candidacy for the 2024 elections

Former US Vice President Mike Pence (2017-2021), presented this Monday the documentation before the US Federal Election Commission. to attend the Republican Party primaries for the presidential elections of 2024.

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Pence is scheduled to officially launch his candidacy with a speech on Wednesday in Iowa, to coincide with his 64th birthday, and later that day he is scheduled to participate in a CNN town hall event in des moinesthe capital of that state.

Thus, pence joins a large group of candidates for the Republican nomination for the US Presidency, such as former president donald trump (20217-2021); the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis; the former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley; the former governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson and the senator for South Carolina, youYom Scott.

Along with them, businessmen have presented their candidacy Vivek Ramaswamy, ryan binkley and Perry Johnsonin addition to the announcer Larry Elder.

According to the weighted average of polls carried out by the web FiveThirtyEightTrump currently leads the polls as the favorite to win the Republican nomination for President, followed by DeSantis, pence, haley and Ramaswamy.

pence counts as guarantee with the four years that he served as vice president during the mandate of Trump. He was previously a congressman from 2001-2013 and Governor of Indiana (2013-2017).

He has the support of the super PAC “Committed to America”, which he launched in mid-May and which he co-chairs with the former Texas congressman jeb hensarling and veteran Republican consultant scott reed. A super cap is a fundraising organization that can collect donations from individuals, corporations, and unions and spend unlimited amounts of funds.

Man of deep religious convictions, pence can be a strong appeal to evangelical voters, who are often targeted speaking about their faith and the issues that matter to them, such as anti-abortion and pro-life policies religious freedom.

In that sense, pence has made it clear that he supports states passing restrictive laws to further limit access to abortion and believes that the abortion pill mifepristonethe most used in USA to terminate pregnancies, should not be marketed.

At the federal level, he has defended the existence of legislation that prohibits abortion after week 15 of gestation.

During the assault on Capitol from January 6, 2021, pencewho that day was acting as president of the Senate by virtue of his position as vice president of the country, ignored the calls of Trump to obstruct the ratification of the democrat Joe Biden as president of USA after winning the elections.

Source: Elcomercio

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