A bestselling author and national security analyst is convinced former Vice President Mike Pence wants to be the presidential candidate for the GOP establishment in 2024.
Pence spoke recently at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, DC, hosted by journalists and attended by politicians. During his speech, he discussed the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol:
Pence: “President Trump was wrong. I had no right to overturn the [November 2020] election. And his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day, and I know history will hold Donald Trump accountable.”
AFN spoke with Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, who in a recent column argued that Pence wants to attract anti-Trumpers.
“Mike Pence seems to be running to be the next Mitt Romney, the next establishment Republican presidential candidate … the controlled opposition that just follows along and carries water for the Left’s agenda,” Spencer states. “It’s a disgrace – and he himself has been a disgrace ever since January 6.”
A family advocate in Pence’s home state of Indiana recently told AFN that the former VP’s comments about being in danger that day were disingenuous. Spencer agrees and contends Pence’s life was never in danger.
“There wasn’t any serious possibility of his actually being put into physical peril,” says the Jihad Watch leader. “The fact is, though, that the whole narrative has unraveled with the revelations of the police peacefully leading the guy with the Viking horns around the Capitol and nobody seems upset.”
But Spencer says Pence seems willing to advance the Left’s narrative regarding Trump, going so far as to ignore the fact Trump told protesters on January 6 to proceed “peacefully and patriotically.”
“Obviously this is a self-serving cynical and one-sided ploy by the Left in order to silence its critics,” says Spencer. “And Mike Pence is playing along, which if anything should disqualify him from any consideration [for] president of the United States.”
But Spencer says Pence – who only draws single-digit interest in most polls – appears convinced he could actually become the establishment’s choice in 2024, even running as an underdog. “From the sound of his recent statements, he would play this role eagerly,” he writes.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
“Mike Pence seems to be running to be the next Mitt Romney”.
To become another dishonorable, treasonous, Democrat RINO.
He must be running for the Presidency of the bored people’s yawning club of misgendered men who act like women who when the heat gets too high, run out of the kitchen to safe RINO establishment retreats. His campaign will be the reincarnations of Joe’s 2020 basement bullpen candidacy, minus the basement but full of the bull.
I just wonder, was he ALWAYS this way?? OR did something happen to him, to turn him commie//
Mike Pence is a good guy in many ways but he is not suited to today’s political climate. He’s about 50 years too late, maybe more. Today we need a bare knuckled fighter.
Is anyone here paying any attention to Vivek Ramaswamy? I laughed the first time I heard his name but I’m not laughing now. He’s not Trump but he is defending Trump and he sounds very conservative in everything I’ve heard him say so far. He’s running for president but not really a contender for 2024. But, he’s young, American born and could run for a different office next time.
He had my respect, when he came out the other year, showing how WELL HE strives to avoid sexual issues in the work place..
BUT that does NOT make him a ‘good guy’/
Pence had the legal ability to send the Elect. Votes back to the States for additional review, thus putting off the election results temp. And maybe or maybe not changing the course of the election results. I never heard anyone say he had the power to overturn the election. And it seems odd to me that Congress changed the VP’s ability to do even this or overturn an election after the Jan 6th BS. If he didn’t have at least the power to send the votes back then why did Congress make a change to the procedure so the VP couldn’t in the future? I also read Pence and McConnell were in Co-hoots with Schimer and Pelosi to reject Trump and create the Jan 6th “riot!”
I wish the truth would come out or we really had investigative journalist who cared that the truth came out.
Even if it did come out, would it matter??
He’s not already the next Romney?