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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)

Posted on 02/18/2025 5:29:41 AM PST by 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.

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To: rbg81

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

Yeah, except Cheney has bigger balls.


21 posted on 02/18/2025 5:43:59 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“heaven’s no!” That’s the only line I ever needed to hear from pence and I didn’t like him for VP choice based on that..he sounded like a soft fruit.

He is.


22 posted on 02/18/2025 5:44:08 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: rbg81

He’s as much a gaping rectum as Liz!


23 posted on 02/18/2025 5:44:37 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ol’ Mike “Scrap Heap of History” Pence really ought to retire.


24 posted on 02/18/2025 5:45:08 AM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pence was a traitor-in-hiding from the get go. He eventually revealed himself as a calculating deep state operative. His political career is over except as a tool of the deep state/neocons buzzing around trying to damage MAGA and regain the influence he never had.


25 posted on 02/18/2025 5:45:48 AM PST by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mike Pence is just a useful idiot to the left.


26 posted on 02/18/2025 5:46:45 AM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: sopo

“He folded like a wet paper bag when LGB...came after him when he was governor of Indiana.”

I don’t know why anybody thought Pence would be courageous on January 6th.


27 posted on 02/18/2025 5:46:51 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I keep reading the headline attempting to understand what I am reading.
Is the author a retard?


28 posted on 02/18/2025 5:47:13 AM PST by Bayard
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Traitor


29 posted on 02/18/2025 5:47:44 AM PST by Dave911
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"ike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing dumb enough to challenge Trump 2.0"

There, fixed headline error for you

30 posted on 02/18/2025 5:50:12 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some rich people think Pence is both electable and manageable.

There’s no chance Pence would win a Republican presidential primary, even in Indiana. Pence is despised by MAGA primary voters.


31 posted on 02/18/2025 5:51:44 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Emerges?

AP is inept


32 posted on 02/18/2025 5:52:30 AM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP.

Riiiiiiiight. /s

He may get votes of the left, and some rinos, but that’s all.

Best of luck, Judas.


33 posted on 02/18/2025 5:52:45 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Vance will destroy Pence in the 2028 primaries. Make no mistake about it-Pence is aiming to be the Deep State RINO saviour.


34 posted on 02/18/2025 5:55:19 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: logi_cal869

We can only hope for a Pence/ Cheney Ticket!


35 posted on 02/18/2025 5:55:42 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

” long time conservative principles...” How exactly does the warmonger Pence, represent anything at all that is principled?


36 posted on 02/18/2025 5:56:25 AM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
AP mentions Pence's "Advancing American Freedom, his political advocacy group," Its mail address is a small condo in Washington, DC, and its "revenue less expenses" for last year was $ -106,532.

Total revenue was $ 1,217,611, and of that over $ 300K was paid to Paul Teller, with canvassing services and "other salaries" and perks eating up the most of the "charitable" work.

Advancing American Freedom Foundation Inc Form 990 for fiscal year ending Dec. 2023

Promoting a politician via a tax-free non-profit....

37 posted on 02/18/2025 5:56:38 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: silverleaf
the Gulf of Mexico

Where is that?

38 posted on 02/18/2025 5:57:00 AM PST by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Now he’s just a has been want to be.”

Sitting in the nosebleed seats with other irrelevant voices of the past: John Kasich, Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Jeff Flake, Meaghan McCain, and the Bush family.

Nicki Haley has been extremely quiet. Smart move. She’s probably laying low waiting to see if the Deep State is able to stop what currently appears to be the Trump juggernaut or if the economy tanks and Trump is blamed. Two years is an eternity and if she is planning to run for POTUS again in 2028 she doesn’t have to put her messaging together until after the 2026 midterms.


39 posted on 02/18/2025 5:58:55 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Bayard

Pence isn’t elected to anything at the moment. He’s an ex vp. He’s been a ridiculous figure since his time in govt. Trump is going to POTUS for the next 4 years. He can join the moon bats and scream no but that is about it.


40 posted on 02/18/2025 5:59:32 AM PST by xp38
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