There are no matches. June 7, on which he turns 64, was the date chosen by Mike Pence to formalize his anticipated candidacy for the White House. At a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, the Republican announced that he wants to reach the White House in 2024, in a campaign that will pit him against former ally Donald Trump. In his introductory speech, he said that he was proud to have stood by Trump’s side during his administration, but did not elaborate on the subject. President Joe Biden was the target chosen to blame for the country’s problems. The magic words came soon after: “I have long believed that to whom much is given, much will be required. That is why today, before God and my family, I announce that I am running for President of the United States of America“.

Pence took the stage with his wife, Karen, who in a short presentation highlighted her husband’s journey in US service and the family that has always supported him. When he gave the candidate the floor, he was expected to spend part of his speech talking about his rivals, particularly Donald Trump, and the candidate did not disappoint. “I can see why people make big announcements in their hometown, in their Touristic centreson Twitter”, he began by saying, indirectly alluding to Trump’s choice to present his candidacy in his Mar-a-Lago mansion and Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, having chosen Twitter for the same purpose.

But this was not the only reference to the former US president. Despite being proud of their time together to make “America Great Again,” Pence accused his former ally of asking him to choose to support him rather than defend the Constitution. “January 6 was a tragic day in our nation’s history. As I have said many times, President Trump’s words were irresponsible and put me, my family, and everyone on Capitol Hill in jeopardy. But the Americans too They deserve to know that on that day President Trump demanded that they choose between him and the Constitution. Now voters will face the same choice”, he affirmed. “I chose the Constitution and I will always do so,” he guaranteed.

I think if you put yourself ahead of the Constitution you should never be president of the United States. And someone who asked someone else to put him above the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”

After highlighting some achievements of the Trump administration, for which he has “prayed” in recent years, Pence began to chart a departure for the former ally from true conservative principles, specifically on the issue of abortion. “When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he promised to govern as a conservative. Together we made it. Today he does not make that promise, ”he said.

The candidate for the White House no longer held back in his criticism of Joe Biden, whom he blamed for the great “crises” in the US. “We know that under the presidency of Joe Biden the United States has become a nation with many issues. Our economy is in jeopardy and inflation is reaching record levels. Wages are down and our borders are open to illegal immigrants and dangerous drugs like fentanyl that are killing our youth,” Pence continued.

An application required by “other times”

By early morning, Pence had already posted the video with which he formalized his candidacy for the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential elections. The conservative appeared with the message “Different times call for different leadership”assuring that “the best days of the Greatest Nation on Earth are yet to come” and assuring that they have “faith that God has not given up on America yet.”

Mike Pence Posts White House Candidacy Video: “Different Times Call For Different Leadership”

Pence’s candidacy comes after he spent months traveling through key states to present his book “So Help Me God” – in an apparent test of his presidential candidacy – while presenting himself as a “Christian, conservative and Republican, in that order”. . In recent public appearances, the former Indiana state governor has been clear in his support for a nationwide abortion ban, despite the backlash to the overturning of the Roe v. Wade has made some Republicans more cautious on the issue.

For Wednesday’s rally, Pence chose Iowa as his venue over his home state of Indiana, where he once served as governor. The candidate for the White House is expected to spend a lot of time in this state since, as the New York Times points out, it is a region where the hard-line conservative position on issues such as abortion can be accepted by evangelical voters.

Mike Pence, who between 2016 and 2020 was Trump’s number two, is the latest candidate for a disputed Republican primary. There are already ten competitors, after this Wednesday morning the governor of South Dakota, Doug Burgum, joined the cast of candidates for president of the United States. The list also included Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, Nikkie Haley, former Governor of South Carolina, and Tim Scott, Senator from South Carolina.

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The White House candidate was a close ally of Donald Trump, but events after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election put them on a collision course. At the time, Pence refused the former president’s request to decline to certify the results that gave Joe Biden victory. Then on January 6 of the following year, pro-Trump protesters invaded the Capitol chanting to hang him, even accusing his former ally of putting him and his family at risk. He later even testified about the episode before a special board of inquiry, the first time in modern history that a vice president was forced to testify about a president he served.