Posted on 06/06/2021 11:39:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When former Vice President Mike Pence spoke in New Hampshire, a state that could prove important to his political future, he handled his boss from the last four years gingerly.
“I learned a lot serving alongside President Donald Trump,” Pence said at the Hillsborough County Republican Party Lincoln-Reagan Dinner Thursday night, calling his term as vice president “the greatest honor of my life.” He went through the standard litany of conservative policy accomplishments — tax cuts, judges, the economic boom prior to the pandemic — from the “four years of consequence,” concluding: “It was four years of promises made and promises kept.”
But Pence, a former congressman, also described the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C., over the certification of Trump’s defeat as “a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol.” He lamented the divisiveness and civil unrest in the country. Then came the money quote that dominated the news coverage of his speech.
“You know, President Trump and I have spoken many times since we left office,” Pence said. “And I don’t know if we’ll ever see eye to eye on that day.”
"He gave a red meat speech to conservatives sounding all the right tones as a prospective presidential candidate," said Mike Dennehy, a Republican strategist in New Hampshire. "He's got a very careful balancing at right now. He appropriately took credit for all the Trump-Pence accomplishments while acknowledging he's not Donald Trump's favorite guy."
No one may be better situated to bridge the divide between the new Trump populism and the older movement conservatism than Pence, who has already launched a group called Advancing American Freedom that aims to do just that. But like so much else in Republican politics, Jan. 6 left him with an unsettled future.
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Fork Pence.... he is done
These guys are on mushrooms. I wouldn’t vote for pennies.
Pence wouldn’t make it through the primaries, regardless of who he picked as his number two. And besides, he wouldn’t b obliged to choose a running mate until after he had the nomination locked up. So even if he did muse about choosing DJT, he’d likely crawfish and choose another establishment muck-dweller like himself.
Last time Pence threw a punch and landed it?
Pence is a voyeur.
Nope. Just another political hack.
As if either Pence or Ryan would have a freebie squarespace website.
He doesn’t stand a chance. Trump supporters will never forgive him and that whole “Dark Day” thing slammed the door shut.
If Trump does not run in 2024, I can’t imagine him endorsing the fake
conservative Pence.
Whatever ticket Pence is on, I won’t be voting. Even if it’s Trump/Pence.
I’d rather stick needles in my eyes than vote for any Republican complicit in certifying a potato to the White House, and sanctioning unlimited voter fraud.
Donald Trump / Sarah Huckabee Sanders would cause such delicious insanity from the Left.
Once you realize Pence & Ryan were BFF in the House, everything else makes sense.
Treasonous scum. Period.
What’s so “tricky”? Pence is done. Should be puttering around his garden and lifting his feet while his dog wife vacuums.
That’s not as bad as you think.
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