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Meanwhile, just 2 points separate DeSantis and fifth-place Mike Pence. A new national poll of Republican Presidential Primary preferences is the worst yet for Ron DeSantis. The McLaughlin and Associates survey of 449 likely voters shows the Florida Governor at 8% in the polls, 47 points behind former President Donald Trump. Perhaps more worrisome for DeSantis is that the field is closing in on him in the survey, fielded from Oct. 22 through Oct. 26. The Florida Governor is tied with Nikki Haley in second place, the latest evidence that the former United Nations envoy and South Carolina Governor is...

The presidential campaign of former Vice President Mike Pence is in financial trouble. And Knewz.com has learned even Pence is acknowledging it. “Other campaigns have a little more money than us,” Pence admitted in a satellite radio interview Friday, October 20. [cut] Pence recently transferred $150,000 of his own money to the campaign, which currently has $620,000 in debts and $1.2 million in cash on hand. [cut] Yet despite recent reports by the Washington Post of campaign staff cuts, Pence sounds ready to press on. “The truth, for me, it’s always been an uphill climb,” Pence told a Sirius/XM interview...

Former Vice President Mike Pence ended September with just $1.18 million cash-on-hand, according to recent filings, and owed $621,000 in debt. NEW YORK — With three months to go before the Iowa caucuses that he has staked his campaign on, former Vice President Mike Pence faces mounting debt and lagging poll numbers that are forcing questions about not only whether he will qualify for the next debate, but whether it makes sense for him to remain in the race until then.

'We're working really hard to qualify for the debate,' the former vice president told NBC's Kristen Welker -------------------------------------------- Pence got asked directly on Sunday if he would drop out of the 2024 presidential race should he fail to qualify for the upcoming third Republican primary debate. The former vice president wouldn't directly answer the question. "We're working really hard to qualify for the debate," Pence said in response to the question on NBC's 'Meet the Press' posed by host Kristen Welker. "I don't have the most money in this campaign, but I do have the most experience." To qualify for...

The former vice president has gone all out to win Iowa. But is anyone listening? [cut] Inside Penn Drug, an old pharmacy and lunch counter in rural Sidney not far from Iowa’s southern border, a smattering of retirees gather each morning to gripe about the world’s problems. Today, two dozen of them wearing Mike Pence stickers, had convened. I wondered, had I walked into the biggest room of Pence stans in Iowa since his June announcement? (That event featured about 200 former staffers, relatives and local Republicans.) Among the crowd in Sidney sat Dave Heywood, a 66-year-old who had “retired...

Ron DeSantis boldly proclaimed that he would win Iowa in a virtual speech for members of the Virgin Islands GOP Committee on Monday. DeSantis dismissed his fellow GOP rivals Nikki Haley and Mike Pence, saying that Republican voters would not choose them. He said that his campaign estimated that 20% of Republicans would vote for Donald Trump and 35% would definitely not vote for Trump. That left 45% still figuring out who to vote for. DeSantis said early voters in Iowa and New Hampshire would vote for him because “I have a record of being a very strong leader.” “We’re...

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s already struggling 2024 presidential campaign has racked up debts upwards of $620,000, according to a campaign finance filing released over the weekend.Pence’s campaign managed to raise just $3.3 million in the last quarter, a figure far below competitors in the GOP nominee race, considering the former Vice President himself contributed $150,000. Pence’s former running mate, Donald Trump, on the other hand, raised a whopping $45.5 million in the same quarter.The filing also noted that it has just $1.2 million in cash to support the campaign, yet $200,000 cannot be deployed due to it having been...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) condemned Israel's vow to blockade Gaza until the hostages taken in Hamas' terror attack are freed, calling it "a war crime. Targeting civilians is a violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. I know that the Hamas attack targeted unarmed men, women, and children, but since when do two wrongs make a right?" Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) condemned Israel's "cruel occupation of Palestine for the massacre of unarmed Jews. The juxtaposition of prosperity on one side of the wall between Israel and Gaza and poverty on the other is dehumanizing. It is not surprising that Palestine's...

Former Vice President Mike Pence, a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, said Thursday on News Radio 610’s “New Hampshire Today” that former President Donald Trump was wrong about Hezbollah being “smart.”Pence was responding to Trump’s comments during a speech in Florida on Wednesday, where he called Hezbollah “smart” and criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Pence said, “This is no time for the former president or any other American leader to be sending any message other than America stands with Israel.”He continued, “Hezbollah aren’t smart, they’re evil. The former president also said when Russia invaded Ukraine in a similar, unprovoked, unconscionable invasion...

At least 1,100 have been declared dead in the Gaza-Israel war ============================================================ Former Vice President Mike Pence blamed President Biden as well as his fellow Republicans such as Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis for the devastating attack on Israel by Hamas over the weekend. Pence commented on the attack Sunday morning on CNN’s "State of the Union" when co-host Dana Bash noted that he has criticized "leaders in the Republican Party" for signaling "American retreat as Leader of the Free World" as an influence. "Are you talking about your former running mate?" Bash asked. "Well, I am," Pence admitted, highlighting...

Mike Pence said that his Republican 2024 primary competitors and their rhetoric are to blame for emboldening Hamas terrorists to attack Israel. In a tweet, the former vice president placed the onus for the conflict directly on GOP 'leading voices' including ex-President Donald Trump, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – the three frontrunners in the Republican primary contest. Pence wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: 'This is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis signaling retreat from America's role as leader of the free world. When I'm...

<p>Pence reiterated one of his campaign's central themes, accusing his Republican rivals of walking away from what he calls "traditional conservative values" like being the "arsenal of democracy" with their lack of full-throated support for Ukraine as it fights against Russia's invasion.</p>

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday criticized his former boss-turned-rival, Donald Trump, for calling retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a traitor over phone calls he made to China in the final stormy months of their administration. “Frankly what Donald Trump said about him in that tweet, about treason and death, was utterly inexcusable,” the GOP presidential candidate said at a national security and foreign policy event at Washington’s Georgetown University co-hosted by The Associated Press. Pence also reacted to the news that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had been ousted from his...

Former Vice President Mike Pence warned this week that if Russian forces are not repelled in Ukraine, U.S. military service members may have to step up to the fight. "I’m convinced that if the Ukrainian military doesn’t stop and repel that Russian invasion, it’s not going to be too long before that Russian army crosses a border that our men and women in uniform are going to have to go and fight under our NATO Treaty," Mr. Pence said during a town hall-style interview with NewsNation on Wednesday. "I truly believe it. Whether that's Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, ... Poland, I...

Great to be in Iowa today with @millermeeks at the Jasper County 10th Annual GOP Trap Shoot! Thanks for the warm welcome! #2A 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/xdF1Wkdxta— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) September 16, 2023

Former Vice President Mike Pence cast the 2024 election as a fight for the future of conservatism and called on fellow Republicans to reject the “siren song of populism” championed by former President Donald Trump and his followers. “Should the new populism of the right seize and guide our party, the Republican Party we’ve long known will cease to exist and the fate of American freedom would be in doubt,” Pence said in what his campaign plugged as a major speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College Wednesday afternoon. […] Pence linked the right’s populism...

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday will call on Republicans to choose classic conservative principles over "the siren song of populism" he sees pervading the party, a movement largely inspired by his former running mate. But he'll do so without directly naming Donald Trump in what's being called a "major" speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College. Campaign advisers told reporters on a preview call Tuesday that the speech was not directed at one candidate in particular, such as Trump or biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, whom Pence has recently hammered over a slate of...

Only three in ten Republican primary voters hold favorable views of former Vice President Mike Pence, earning him the second-worst rating of any Republican presidential candidate behind former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), according to a national poll. His (Pence) favorability has dropped considerably since April’s Wall Street Journal poll, when 54 percent of the population saw him positively and 35 percent viewed him negatively. This marks a staggering 52-point swing in the wrong direction in five months’ time. Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), with a net favorability rating of -55 among Republicans, is in even worse shape than Pence. Only...

2024 GOP Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy join Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss his presidential campaign. ...

CENTERVILLE, Iowa — Former Vice President Mike Pence isn't saving his criticism of Vivek Ramaswamy for the debate stage only. “He’s wrong on foreign policy, he’s wrong on American leadership in the world, He’s wrong on how we get this economy moving,” Pence said of Ramaswamy Wednesday while talking to reporters after a campaign stop. The jabs come after the two shared a tense exchange a week ago in Milwaukee at the first Republican presidential debate. When discussing the economy, Pence obliquely referred to Ramaswamy as a “rookie” and said “now is not the time for on-the-job training.” In a...