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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...

The filings also show that Pence has earned big sums on the speaking circuit, collecting a total of $3.4 million for 32 speeches between January 2022 and the end of April this year. Pence announced his candidacy for the White House in early June. The most lucrative engagement: A $550,000 honorarium for a February 2022 appearance at a world summit underwritten by the Universal Peace Federation in Seoul, South Korea. The group was established by the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon – the Korean evangelist and businessman who founded the Unification Church – and his wife, Hak Ja Han. According...