![]() He also insisted that he parted with his boss on good terms. In a radio interview on Wednesday he repeated a now familiar line that he and Trump may “never see eye to eye” on the events of 6 January, but he also told several news outlets “there were irregularities that happened at the state level” in the election. There are already signs of Pence having his cake and eating it too. ![]() Pence, however, may choose to borrow from the playbook of Glenn Youngkin, who recently won election as governor of Virginia by keeping Trump at arm’s length without overtly denouncing him, thereby reaping the best of both worlds: the party establishment and “Make America Great Again” (Maga) base. There is no evidence of any such fraud or irregularities. The campaign-style tour did not go unnoticed by Trump, who released a statement that said: “Good man, but big mistake on not recognizing the massive voter fraud and irregularities” in the 2020 election. Mike Pence poses for photos with guests during a gathering in Manchester, New Hampshire, on 8 December. And then in 2023, we’ll look around and we’ll go where we’re called.” So I’m dedicating all of my energy to the process of really winning back the Congress and winning statehouses in 2022. He told the Associated Press: “To be honest with you, all of my focus is on 2022 because I think we’ve got a historic opportunity for not just a winning election, but a realignment election. In a speech hosted by Heritage Action, a conservative policy advocacy organisation, the 62-year-old accused Biden of fuelling inflation and lambasted the president’s social and environmental spending plan, warning: “Keep your hands off the American people’s pay cheques.”Īs is customary at this stage of an election cycle, Pence did not confirm or deny whether he was running for president, insisting that his priority was next year’s midterm elections for Congress. He attended holiday parties, raised money for state Republicans and posed for photos at at the Simply Delicious bakery in Bedford. Pence’s visit to New Hampshire was his second to the state, which has a huge say in choosing the party nominee, since leaving office. In the end, even for people who disagree with him for many other policy positions he’s taken, whether it was as a governor or as a vice-president, he did the right thing when the pressure was on on January 6. “I think people are realising that he was an unlikely hero on January 6. ![]() Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist in Indiana, said: “He’s doing everything he needs to set himself up to run and, if Trump is not the nominee or is not running, I think he’s clearly the frontrunner.” He may also be calculating that the stand he made for democracy on 6 January – a day on which he refused to flee the Capitol, taking cover in an underground car park – will resonate with moderate Republicans and independents. Yet the former Indiana governor appears to be playing a long game, perhaps betting that Trump’s influence over the party will wane over the next three years. “His biggest challenge is the people that he’s going to need to vote for him – the Republican primary base – are also the people who wanted to hang him on January 6,” said Kurt Bardella, an adviser to the Democratic National Committee. Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi preside over a joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 electoral college results on 6 January 2021. ![]()
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