![]() ![]() He is taking all the traditional steps to position himself for a 2024 presidential bid-hopscotching the country giving six-figure speeches, sitting down for interviews with friendly conservative media outlets and hosting fundraisers for Republican candidates and causes. Nine months after the Jan. 6 insurrection and his subsequent departure from the White House, Pence’s friends and advisers say he is likely to run for president-especially if Trump does not. ![]() is apparently intent on riding that schtick all the way to the White House in 2024. As Eastman told the Times, “I think Jacob was looking for a way for he and Pence to be convinced to take the action that we were requesting, and so I think he continued to meet with me and push back on the arguments and hear my counters, what have you, to try and see whether they could reconcile themselves to what the president had asked.” In other words, as The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent put it, despite ultimately deciding he didn’t have the power to overturn the results of the election, Pence seemingly wanted “to be convinced otherwise.”Īnyway, we bring all of this up because it’s important to remember that Pence isn’t a great defender of the Constitution not only for posterity’s sake, but because the former V.P. Meanwhile, as the The New York Times reported last week, Pence and his legal counsel, Greg Jacob, took the time to meet with John Eastman-the lawyer who wrote a memo laying out a plan for Trump to overturn the election-and despite seeming skeptical of his powers, Pence appeared to seriously explore the idea of halting the certification of Biden’s win. The Trump town hall in New Hampshire this month included several arguments and harsh exchanges CNN took criticism for giving Trump such a platform, though the network said at the time that it would host similar events for other candidates.Over the last month, it’s become clear that while Mike Pence was basically hailed as a hero on January 6 for refusing to overturn the results of the 2020 election, a more apt description would be “guy who did the absolute bare minimum and in fact tried his hardest to figure out a way to stop Joe Biden from being president in service to Donald Trump.” As we learned from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book, Peril, Pence, in his own words, reportedly told Trump that he did “everything” he could to try and stop the certification of a free and fair election, having pleaded with former vice president Dan Quayle to help him figure out if there was any way to pull it off, and telling Quayle, “You don’t know the position I’m in.” Washington Trump, Pence and other potential GOP nominees split on abortion restrictions at Iowa eventĬNN also said this week that former South Carolina governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley will participate in a town hall in Iowa on June 4. Pence has said he would make an announcement about his 2024 plans before the end of June. The Iowa caucuses early next year will provide a first test for Trump and his Republican opponents. Pence, Trump's former vice president, will take questions from CNN moderator Dana Bash and "a live audience which is comprised of Iowa Republicans and Iowa voters, who say they will pre-register to participate in the Republican caucuses," the network said in a statement. It marks the latest in a series of town halls featuring Republican presidential candidates, including the raucous May 10 event with former President Donald Trump. Pence will headline a June 7 town hall at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, CNN announced Thursda y. ![]() WASHINGTON − Mike Pence hasn't officially announced a bid for president yet, but the Republican former vice president is still getting the CNN town hall treatment early next month. ![]()
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