Mike Pence withdraws from the presidential race. Trump Karma strikes again…
Former Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday that he is suspending his 2024 Republican presidential campaign. “I'm here to say it's clear to me that this is not my time,” Pence said at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual convention.
“So, after much prayer and reflection, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today.” Pence is not endorsing any of the other candidates for the 2024 GOP nomination.
The former vice president launched his 2024 campaign in early June. Although he spent a lot of time over the summer and fall on the campaign field in the crucial early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his bid for the White House never got off the ground.
Pence has been running low-to-middle in recent polls and his fundraising has been modest. The former vice president struggled – but ultimately met the requirements to qualify for the first two debates for the Republican presidential nomination. But as of Saturday, he was still far from meeting the criteria to take the stage at the third debate next month.
“You know, we always knew it was going to be an uphill battle, but I have no regrets. The only thing that would have been harder than failing would have been if we had never tried at all,” Pence told the crowd at the annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he announced he was suspending his campaign.
Pence told the crowd, to applause and cheers, that “I say this is not my moment, but it's still your moment. I urge you to hold fast to what matters: your faith, your family, and the Constitution of the United States of America. I am proud that our campaign stood firm on America's role as the leader of the free world.”
Former President Donald Trump, the undisputed favorite for the GOP nomination as he runs for the White House for the third time, and all his main rivals for 2024, attended the meeting of the RJC, the Republican Jewish Coalition, which this year comes at the most delicate moment, given the war situation in the Gaza Strip.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, speaking after the former vice president, did not refer to the news of Pence's split.
But the next speaker, former ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, began her speech by praising Pence.
“I want to first make a special point for Vice President Mike Pence. He was a good man of faith. He was a man of service. He fought for America and he fought for Israel. And we all owe him a debt of gratitude,” Haley said to applause from the crowd.
Pence, a former conservative congressman, was governor of Indiana when Trump nominated him as his vice presidential candidate in 2016. For four years, Pence served as Trump's loyal vice president.
However, everything changed on January 6, 2021, when rioters – some chanting “hang Mike Pence” – stormed the US Capitol aiming to subvert Congress's certification of President Biden's Electoral College victory, overseen by Pence . The accusation against Pence was that he had not sufficiently supported the former president's claims regarding the irregularity of the elections. This led to a rift between the two GOP leaders and among the party's eight starting candidates in the primaries he was one of the few who did not support Trump.
Now he has eliminated himself from the race.
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