Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0

The Associated Press ^ | February 17, 2025 | BY JILL COLVIN (D-AP)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) — His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns.

This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new administration.

It’s an especially jarring role for the former vice president, whose refusal to break with Trump defined their time together in office until the two had a falling out over Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his efforts to remain in power.

Pence and those who work with him at Advancing American Freedom, his political advocacy group, stress they are not looking to take on the “Never Trump” mantle. They intend to praise the administration when they agree with it, while raising concerns when they don’t, advocating for longtime conservative principles that have fallen out of favor as Trump’s “Make America Great Again” brand of populism has taken hold.

[Qwapisking]

30 piece pence hasn’t a prayer.

[rbg81]

So Pence is the new Liz Cheney? What an awesome career move!

[juggernaut]

AP.....of course.

[AndyJackson]

Is a flow of funds check being conducted on this guy?

[struggle]

Oh no, what will we ever do?

[JBW1949]

Pence is a POS.....

[AndyJackson]

It’s a bold move.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Glad he outed himself, if he had stuck by Trump he would have been a serious contender for the presidency. Now he’s just a has been want to be.

[cuz1961]

pence and the ap

the bogarts no one wants to hang around with.

drama queens no more no less.

[CodeToad]

Pence is a wussy. No one cares about that couch potato.

[rktman]

Does he still have his clearances? I hope not.

[redfreedom]

This is funny.

[rdcbn1]

This article is so pre Jan 20.

[sopo]

He folded like a wet pare bag when LGB ( it was so long ago, I think just 3 letters) came after him when he was governor of Indiana.

[mewzilla]

If we don’t secure our elections, then Deep State can install Judas Pence the same way it installed the POTATUS.

[silverleaf]

Isnt the AP on a staff retreat at the Gulf of Mexico?

[Made In The USA]

So Mike, how much USAID money did you lose?

[daku]

If I didn’t know better I’d think Pence a hero after reading this, but I know better.

[rbg81]

It’s a bold move.

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Bold? I think not. I’m sure there is $$ in it for Mike, just like there was for Liz. Pence’s political career is over.