{"id":124076,"date":"2024-03-16T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/mike-pence-i-cannot-in-good-conscience-endorse-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T15:28:21","slug":"mike-pence-i-cannot-in-good-conscience-endorse-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/mike-pence-i-cannot-in-good-conscience-endorse-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pence: \u201cI Cannot In Good Conscience Endorse Donald Trump\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\"><strong>Mike Pence<\/strong> shouldn&#8217;t be planning to endorse <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s re-election bid, the previous Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pT0nHQD7IMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced<\/a> Friday, rebuking the person he served with for 4 years till a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol constructing, erecting a makeshift gallows and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/09\/donald-trump-mike-pence-january-6-cassidy-hutchinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chanting<\/a>, \u201cHang Mike Pence!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,\u201d Pence advised Fox host <strong>Martha MacCallum<\/strong>, saying he \u201ccould not in good conscience support\u201d the marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Pence\u2019s refusal comes because the GOP has largely closed ranks behind the presumptive nominee, who at present faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/will-donald-trump-actually-face-accountability-criminal-trials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">88 prices<\/a> throughout 4 felony instances and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/ny-fraud-case-damages-pay-millions-judge-engoron-rcna135283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crippling civil penalties<\/a> in his enterprise fraud case. Legions of former Trump opponents have introduced their fealty as he\u2019s run away with the nomination, together with among the former president\u2019s rivals on the first marketing campaign path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The former vp, who dropped out of the first earlier than a single vote was forged, refused to say whom he plans to vote for in November, saying he would preserve \u201chow I vote when the curtain closes\u201d to himself. He solely stated that he would \u201cnever vote\u201d for President <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>. He additionally stated he had no plans to run as a third-party candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">When he launched into his abortive presidential marketing campaign, Pence indicated that he would in the end lend his assist to Trump if he turned the nominee. Back in August, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/republican-debate-if-trump-is-convicted-support-as-president-jan-6-indictments-pence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised his hand<\/a> when GOP debate moderator <strong>Brett Baier<\/strong> requested the candidates whether or not they would assist Trump as their social gathering\u2019s 2024 standard-bearer even when he had been \u201cconvicted in a court of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">With two exceptions\u2014former New Jersey Governor <strong>Chris Christie<\/strong> and former Arkansas Governor <strong>Asa Hutchinson<\/strong>\u2014the remainder of the sphere agreed. That included former South Carolina Governor <strong>Nikki Haley<\/strong>, who dropped out of the race earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/nikki-haley-suspends-gop-presidential-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with out endorsing<\/a> Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In the Friday interview, Pence attributed his refusal to endorse to \u201cprofound differences between me and President Trump on a range of issues, and not just our difference on my constitutional duties that I exercised on January the 6th,\u201d when Pence rebuffed Trump\u2019s calls to refuse to certify Joe Biden\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cAs I have watched his candidacy unfold, I\u2019ve seen him walking away from our commitment to confronting the national debt,\u201d he stated. \u201cI\u2019ve seen him starting to shy away from a commitment to the sanctity of human life and, this last week, his reversal on getting tough on China and supporting our administration\u2019s effort to force a sale of ByteDance TikTok application.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Since January 6 and all through his marketing campaign, Pence has struggled to determine how one can tackle his relationship with Trump. In his memoir, launched in 2022 a prelude to his presidential bid, Pence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/14\/books\/review\/so-help-me-god-mike-pence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frequently referred<\/a> to his former operating mate as \u201cmy friend\u201d whereas castigating him for his conduct on January 6, which Pence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/pence-details-jan-6-falling-out-with-trump-in-new-memoir#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20had%20always%20been%20loyal,those%20serving%20at%20the%20Capitol.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> \u201chad endangered my family and all those serving at the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Pence maintained Friday that he was \u201cincredibly proud of the record of our administration. It was a conservative record that made America more prosperous, more secure, and saw conservatives appointed to our courts in a more peaceful world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Mike Pence shouldn&#8217;t be planning to endorse Donald Trump\u2019s re-election bid, the previous Vice President introduced Friday, rebuking the person he served with for 4 years till a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol constructing, erecting a makeshift gallows and chanting, \u201cHang Mike Pence!\u201d \u201cIt should come as no surprise that I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-124076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}