Posted on 07/29/2022 4:04:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
My colleague Michael Bender wrote this week about the deepening rivalry between Donald Trump and Mike Pence, onetime partners and political allies.
The two men became estranged after Pence declined to support Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election results on Jan. 6, 2021. That same day, the mild-mannered Indianan hid from a mob chanting “Hang Mike Pence” as it stormed the Capitol after being egged on by the president.
This week, they made dueling appearances in Washington and things did not go well for Pence. He drew a small, polite crowd at a gathering of the Young America’s Foundation while Trump basked in a raucous reception at the America First Policy Summit. (For those unfamiliar with these institutions, both represent emerging power centers of the new, Trumpified G.O.P. establishment.)
The split-screen speeches showed that Trump, as Bender notes, is still the big dog in the Republican Party.
“The two appearances also underscored the wide gap in enthusiasm among Republicans between Mr. Trump and any other potential primary rival in 2024,” Bender wrote.
In a New York Times/Siena College poll of Republican voters this month, just 6 percent said they would vote for Pence if he were to run for president two years from now, compared with 49 percent who said they would stick with Trump. Unscientific straw polls of young Republican activists have found Pence faring even worse in hypothetical primaries.
To put the matter plainly: It is difficult to find a Republican strategist who will tell you that Pence has a real chance in a 2024 matchup against his former boss.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnewsera.com ...
Judas Pence does what Deep State tells him to do.
I don’t know why anyone even goes through this charade about Mike Pence’s political prospects. The guy was a flat-out awful candidate for President long before 2020.
It’s just weird. Mike Pence could have been a two-term vice president, well positioned for a possible run for president in 2024 as the follow-on to 8 years of Trump.
He didn’t want that.
Instead, he stabbed Trump in the back, and is now basically asking Trump supporters, “Can I please be president?”
I say he’s not running in any serious way — he’s just sucking up money, a lot of it Dark.
Sounds familiar....
Deep State may yet reward his service.
enjoy your retirement, mike
If it’s any solace, I doubt he is.
Deep State is a lot like the Mafia, I suspect.
You never get to retire.
He spent years, decades really, cultivating an image of wholesomeness and integrity, and in spite of that, he will be remembered for a defining moment of moral cowardice when it mattered.
Pence is in the same category as Fauxi and Scarf.....totally untrustworthy, backstabbing and a liar.
In a sane world, all three of em would be publicly hanged at that the same time and the same place.
Lost me right there. Author Evelyn drank the Kool-Aid. Repeat the lie long enough that you make your own reality. Then convince those that bother to read your tripe that it’s just another fact worth regurgitating?
FU Evelyn. Liberalism is a psychological disorder.
The Washington Machiavelli snake set has been whispering on Pence’s ear how good he is.
The loser consultant class is smacking their lips over getting a piece of the deep state cash pie that is going to flow into his doomed campaign.
Like making a three legged dog a 4 legged dog. He is a traitor
Somebody buy a dog, name it Clue and give it to Mike Pence.
Searching for a home. Benedict Arnold was never accepted in England and Benedict pence will never be accepted anywhere in America.
I like the title - good one!
He was a Judas to Trump and now a Judas Goat to ‘we the people’ ..... MAGA is not following.
“The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared.”
It ain’t gonna happen!
There may have been a time a couple decades or so ago where Pence would be an average candidate running for office....not in todays climate - not even close. Votrs are looking for those who will fight for this country and Pence is a peace keeper sorta guy.
Mikey doesn’t understand people who really love America, love truth, and all that is just and right, see him as the diseased roach he is, which needs to be run over with a steam roller machine, and pavement powerwashed/acid washed from the smashed roach excrement explosion — 🇺🇸
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