Posted on 02/23/2023 6:10:50 PM PST by conservative98
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he would prefer a Republican alternative to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, while floating reforms to popular entitlement programs as he mulls his own possible White House run.
"I think we're going to have better choices" than Trump, Pence said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" when asked if the GOP should nominate someone other than the former president next year. Pence did not explicitly rule out supporting Trump if he became the GOP nominee.
The ex-vice president, who served under Trump in the White House for four years, also appeared to take a soft swipe at his former boss when discussing Republicans' underperformance in the midterm elections.
"Our candidates that were focused on the past, particularly on relitigating the last election, did not do well, including in areas that we should have done very well," Pence said.
Pence is expected to be considering his own presidential run — a move that could put him in direct competition with Trump, who has attacked him for refusing to help overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. After Pence said on Jan. 6, 2021, that he wouldn't go along with Trump's scheme, a violent mob of Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, sending the then-vice president and congressional lawmakers into hiding.
But Pence offered only a cryptic answer about his presidential plans in the new interview Wednesday.
"I'll keep you posted," he said when asked if he sought the Republican presidential nomination.
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“”I think we’re going to have better choices” than Trump, Penis said”
I don’t think so.
It is NOT your money! There have been several federal court decisions including USSC decisions that say you have no ownership rights in the money you paid in. If you had ownership rights in that money it could be counted as part of your assets. You could leave it to your heirs. You can’t!
All you have is a vague political promise that this political IOU to pay your SS benefits will be honored by the next working generation. FDR and his gang of Ivy League genius lawyers scammed us! They want you to keep misunderstanding how financially perilous the whole system is!
Like Lindsey Graham during the mid-terms talking about abortion.
Mike Dense
Please clap
That’s his job. To lose “with dignity”. See also: Romney. Designated squish candidates, failure theater.
Better get used to it. Be prepared for it. Because “some day”, they will no longer be able to fund everything with unlimited confetti bucks. They will have to make cuts.
Foreign creditors have to be paid. But they don’t have to pay you. Take a guess how that is going to work. Maybe that’s what is going on now. Complicated money laundering.
There might be. But pence isn’t.
social security is simply the return of SOME of the money the government stole from us workers during our working years ... that’s NOT an entitlement ...
it’s political suicide to go after social security, so i have no problem whatsoever if Pence wants to make that an important part of his platform ... in fact, i would strongly encourage him to beat on that particular drum ...
Standing on the Bible makes him look taller.
Sanctimonious scum bag.
Pence needs to get into the race as do 17 other candidates.
Pence needs to shut up and go away
He has DEAD EYES!! I don’t TRUST him and Neither does his WIFE, Karen, if she can’t trust him to have a meeting or dinner with a woman!!
OKEY DOKEY MIKEY.....STOP ALL GOVERNMENT PENSIONS FIRST!
How does this meat sack not grasp that he’s on par with Liz Cheney, now?
He deserves support comPenceurate with his support of the man that made
him second in line to rule the world.
Zero
I get it. He’s the stalking horse. He commits political suicide, and Trump marches forward. Payoff to take place in the parking lot. I’m ok with that.
He’s a neocon POS.
I’d never consider voting for this traitor putz.
“Pence is expected to be considering his own presidential run”
Which is now dead in the water before he even got started.
Fredo returns.
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