Pence kicks off his campaign for the Republican primary with a direct affront to Trump

The former vice president of USA Mike Pence He went straight into the mud and launched an affront against the former president on Wednesday donald trump (2017-2021), of whom he was a running mate, at the official start of his campaign for the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential election.

“I don’t think anyone who puts themselves above the Constitution should be president of the United States and no one who asks someone else to put themselves above the Constitution should be president of USA”, Pence said at his first rally in Ankeny (Iowa).

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In his speech, the former vice president made it clear that he wants to distance himself from Trump, the favorite candidate to win the Republican nomination in 2024, according to polls, and from whom Pence distanced himself after the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

For this, Pence presented himself as the candidate who will make the Republican Party comply with the magna carta, as opposed to Trump.

For this reason, he recalled that January 6, when he was president of Congress in a session to ratify the victory of the Democrat Joe Biden against Trump in the 2020 elections and the then Republican president urged him to suspend the process.

“January 6th was a tragic day in the life of our nation, but thanks to the courage of law enforcement the violence was suppressed and we reconvened in Congress that same day to complete the work of the American people under the Constitution. from USA”Pence recalled.

“As I have said many times -he added-, on that fateful day Trump’s words were reckless, they endangered my family and the whole world”.

That day, thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol while Congress was meeting to certify Biden’s victory, after the then-president encouraged his supporters to march to the Legislative headquarters.

Pence noted that the American people “deserve to know” that Trump asked him to choose between him and the Constitution that day, and now “voters face the same choice”.

In this sense, he opined that the Republican Party “must be the US Constitution Party.”.

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“We must stand by the Constitution to protect the God-given right to life, we must stand by the Constitution to protect the right to keep and bear arms, we must stand by the Constitution to protect the right to live, work, pray, according to the dictates of our faith and conscience“, cheer up.

Throughout his speech, Pence, a man of deep Christian religious convictions, which may be a claim for evangelical voters, made numerous references to the Bible, to praying and to religion.

“I’m a Christian, Conservative, and Republican, in that order.“, it defined itself.

In fact, in another effort to distance himself from Trump, he spoke about the issue of abortion and mentioned that, when the former president ran for the first time in the elections for the White House in 2016, he vowed to govern as a Conservative.

“Together we did this, but today he no longer makes that promise. After leading the most pro-life Administration in US history, donald trump and others in this race (towards the Republican nomination for the 2024 election) are withdrawing from the cause in favor of the unborn“, he claimed.

At this point, Pence stressed that he is someone who will always defend “the sanctity of life”, against candidates like Trump, who, in his opinion, see this matter as “an inconvenience” and they even see it as the reason for the Republican setback in the 2022 midterm elections.

For the rest, like the rest of the Republican candidates, Pence criticized Biden’s management and pointed out that the country is “unrecognizable” after these years of Democratic government.

He drew a bleak picture with “crises everywhere”, as on the border, the high inflation and the increase in crime because of the Democratic Administration.

Therefore, he justified his candidacy “before God” and his family to return the country to the prosperity of the past.

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Pence has been the last Republican to officially launch his campaign, after eleven other candidates have done so, including Trump and the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.

Other conservatives who have stepped forward include the Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum; the former US ambassador to the UN nikki haley; the former governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson; former Governor of New Jersey chris christie; and the senator from South Carolina, Tim Scott.

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

Source: Elcomercio

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