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Trump spokesman: Pence ‘desperate to chase his lost relevance’
The hill ^ | 05/23/2022 | Brad Dress

Posted on 05/23/2022 6:35:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A spokesman for former President Trump told The New York Times that former Vice President Mike Pence is “desperate to chase his lost relevance” amid rising tensions between the two former allies, who could clash for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

In a Times article about Pence laying the groundwork for a potential 2024 bid, Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich said the former Indiana governor was “set to lose a governor’s race in 2016 before he was plucked up and his political career was salvaged.”

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KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2020election; 2022election; 2024election; braddress; desperate; election2016; election2020; election2022; election2024; indiana; judaspence; mikepence; pence; relevance; rino; rinos; taylorbudowich; thehill; theshill; trump
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Pence is toast
1 posted on 05/23/2022 6:35:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well said President Trump!


2 posted on 05/23/2022 6:37:35 AM PDT by albie
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pence has no natural constituency for a national run on his own. I don’t demonize him like some do, but he has not a whiff of charisma, and no discernible platform other than being a nice guy.


3 posted on 05/23/2022 6:38:51 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ve never believed Pence was Trump’s ally.


4 posted on 05/23/2022 6:39:21 AM PDT by vivenne (")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I never could understand why he picked Pence.

Except maybe the deep-staters told him it might help him win that state? (old thinking)

A ticket of him and Palin would have been gold. What? You say the media would have trashed them both? Duh... they were going to do that anyway.


5 posted on 05/23/2022 6:40:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Well said.


6 posted on 05/23/2022 6:41:02 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: ChicagoConservative27
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/taylor-budowich-458.jpg?quality=90&strip=all
Taylor Budowich
7 posted on 05/23/2022 6:43:53 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey Pence, care to show us the envelope/card you got at the 2018 Bush Funeral


8 posted on 05/23/2022 6:45:11 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pence is the sole reason we have Brandon.


9 posted on 05/23/2022 6:46:39 AM PDT by JJBookman (Fuggedaboutit!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump is correct, but I dont think he helps himself by creating a longer enemies list. Sometimes its better not to say anything.


10 posted on 05/23/2022 6:47:47 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He needs to lay off Pence. Like him or not, I don’t think it’s a good look for Trump and his folks to demonize his former VP.


11 posted on 05/23/2022 6:48:50 AM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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Pence laying the groundwork for a potential 2024 bid

Outside a handful of "religious" voters, Pence has very little support.

12 posted on 05/23/2022 6:50:07 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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I think Trump picked Pence for about the same reasons that Reagan picked Bush. The Deep State hoisted Bush on Reagan to keep tabs on him. Ditto for Trump.


13 posted on 05/23/2022 6:51:11 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fauci is a despicable little turd)
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To: hinckley buzzard
"Pence has no natural constituency for a national run on his own."

Exactly. MAGA voters won't go near him. And the left certainly wouldn't vote for him. That leaves the establishment GOPers, but they won't touch him because he was 45's VEEP. And then there's that conspicuous lack of charisma that you mentioned.

Politically, he's pretty much a leper.

14 posted on 05/23/2022 6:51:24 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: Magnum44

Ho hum...

Yet ANOTHER effort by the Dems to poison Republican “unity”.


15 posted on 05/23/2022 6:51:45 AM PDT by pfony1 ( All Democrats lie.)
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To: 1Old Pro
Outside a handful of "religious" voters, Pence has very little support.

Not to mention that Pence has the charisma of dishwater.

16 posted on 05/23/2022 6:51:59 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fauci is a despicable little turd)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Was pence ever relevant to begin with?


17 posted on 05/23/2022 6:53:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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Not to mention that Pence has the charisma of dishwater.

He'll get as far as Santorum did, nowhere but a third rate TV guest.

18 posted on 05/23/2022 6:54:35 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Vice Presidents and Senators are always wishing to move up, always.


19 posted on 05/23/2022 6:56:33 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Mr. K

I don’t think he picked, I think he acquiesced for quid pro quo, perhaps to be allowed to run with some GOP support. Many of the “picks” Freepers excoriate him for were in the same category.


20 posted on 05/23/2022 6:56:46 AM PDT by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
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