Former Vice President Mike Pence will not endorse Trump in 2024
Source: CNBC
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he would not endorse his former boss for president, as Trump seeks another term in office.
I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year, Pence said on Fox News.
Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years, Pence continued.
The startling announcement came as Trump secured enough Republican delegates this week to clinch the partys nomination.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/former-vice-president-mike-pence-will-not-endorse-trump-for-president.html
Hard to endorse a guy whose supporters wanted to hang you, I suppose.
riversedge
(70,413 posts)ificandream
(9,413 posts)Religious fanatic and political hack, yet if it wasn't for him we'd probably have Trump as president now. Would love to see someone do a really insightful biography of him.
NoRethugFriends
(2,350 posts)ShazzieB
(16,609 posts)But that wouldn't have been enough to stop a truly MAGA-minded V.P. from doing it anyway and creating a constitutional crisis.
I for one am glad Pence wasn't brainwashed enough to do as TSF asked. As disturbingly compliant as he was with much of TSF's b.s., he was able to draw the line when it mattered the most.
I think he deserves credit for his actions on J6, and declining to endorse Trump now is good, too. A person can suck in some ways while still deserving credit for the times when they don't suck.
markodochartaigh
(1,166 posts)good to say about either Dan Potato(e) Quayl(e) or Mike Pence, but I guess that it is true that animals can see good in a person when people can't. The fly was right.
/s
All Mixed Up
(597 posts)Regardless, Pence saved this country an even worse fate.
ShazzieB
(16,609 posts)But it would been a hell of a mess all the same, and I'm glad it didn't come to that.
NanaCat
(1,429 posts)However little there may be of it. That's how we build the coalition that keeps TSF from the White House. Few of our allies will be as ideologically pure as we'd like, but it's better to have them doing the right thing with us, nevertheless, than to have them on the other side.
It's all hands on deck time. We can't be too choosy about our allies when so much is at stake.
ShazzieB
(16,609 posts)Upthevibe
(8,100 posts)I agree with you. I'd love for someone to do a real in depth biography of him. I don't agree with his stands, of course....anti-LGBTG+, anti-choice, etc. Having said that, I think he sincerely believes what he believes.
Also, I 100% agree that if it wasn't for him dt would be President and Democracy would be over....
BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)The best thing about this is Trump now has to answer questions about it.
et tu
(933 posts)UpInArms
(51,289 posts)Mothers husband
riversedge
(70,413 posts)hopefully, Cheney holds some sway with a some Republicans.
In our nations 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump."
-Former VP Dick Cheney
Link to tweet
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pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)NanaCat
(1,429 posts)But the last thing I'd ever do is spurn his help, however uneasy it makes me to have him opposed to the same thing we are.
Even now, he's a powerful guy, politically, with ties to other quite powerful people, especially the wealthy kind. He can get things done on that side of the aisle that we probably couldn't--and never would.
COL Mustard
(5,950 posts)A RINO globalist probably funded by Soros.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,712 posts)angrychair
(8,750 posts)And I like it ..
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Voltaire2
(13,244 posts)Meanwhile where is Bush, dimwit? or is Dick f'ing Cheney still somehow alive? Oh he is, too bad. Those fuckers created this nightmare, maybe they ought to speak up too.
All Mixed Up
(597 posts)NanaCat
(1,429 posts)As much as we do. He knows that Tangerine Twitler is so toxic and stupid that he could very well undo the free-market authoritarian paradise he and the GQP have been working to build since Nixon.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)Him and Nikki. Unite the party!
Raven123
(4,919 posts)durablend
(7,467 posts)Pototan
(1,230 posts)Withholding your endorsement from Trump just because he wanted to hang you.
mysteryowl
(7,432 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,041 posts)But too little, too late.
twodogsbarking
(9,885 posts)D23MIURG23
(2,850 posts)That makes him more courageous than most Republicans. That isn't nothing.
agingdem
(7,870 posts)his former boss!!!...Mike Pence is a jellyfish in human form...
Firestorm49
(4,038 posts)I dont much give two shits what Mike Pence does or does not do. He's just another waste of a Republican.
Grins
(7,257 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)It is the old guard Republicans saying they don't want to be associated with the Johnson-tRump failure they think is coming.
NanaCat
(1,429 posts)When someone tries to get you killed.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)You won't support him,then don't vote for him either.
sop
(10,284 posts)Shermann
(7,471 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(2,747 posts)kimbutgar
(21,240 posts)Party over country pence.
Srkdqltr
(6,365 posts)Bucky
(54,087 posts)Ted threatens to resign when the new station manager fires Lou, Mary, & Murray. Of course the spineless Ted backs down, but as Murray observes, "When a donkey flies, you don't blame him for not staying up that long."
Prediction: Pence will find some way to backtrack.
wryter2000
(46,125 posts)Oh, well...we have him to thank that J6 didn't turn the government over to Trump. I will thank him for that.