Former Indiana governor and candidate for Republican nomination tells Fox News decision ‘should come as no surprise’
Mike Pence will not endorse for president Donald Trump, the man he served as vice-president for four years but whose supporters chanted for Pence to be hanged as they attacked Congress on January 6.
“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” the former Indiana governor and former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination told Fox News on Friday.
Asked why, given that he previously promised to endorse the eventual nominee, Pence mentioned 6 January 2021, the day a mob attacked Congress and Trump was reported to have told aides Pence “deserved” to be hanged for refusing to block certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.
I give it a month, two max, before his spine fails him and he endorses Trump. We’ve seen it happen many times before.
“Will you endorse the man who tried to send an angry mob to hang you in order to stop the peaceful transition of power in the United States?”
“Probably not.”
It’s crazy that people are acting like this is some brave stance on pence’s part. Jesus, Republicans get to enjoy such a low bar for being praised.
Yes very true, but how often does it happen where a former American vp does not endorse their presidential counterpart’s future bids for president?
According to my calculations, it happens roughly as often as a serving American VP is sent a big unruly mob riled up on the idea of VP-killing by their current American president.
Endorse Biden you coward. His opponent’s supporters wanted to hang you.
Say what you will, but at the end of Trump’s presidency Pence grew a spine and told him to fuck off.
Trump was hanging onto the idea that Pence would magically solve his problem by denying the certification. Of course, Trump’s cult went to the capitol to try and hang him. I hope he endorses the other candidates, or Biden when it comes to it. It’d be a massive middle finger to the entire cult.
Oh please, that man still has the spine of a jellyfish.
Even after Trump tried to have him executed he was still on the air defending this trash person and his racist trash party.
This is the correct perspective. Mike Pence is a weird and cowardly shithead who decided to get off the crazy train at that stop. There were hundreds of previous stops that would have been appropriate exits. HIV enthusiast making sure people in Indiana get infected. Looks and personally of a Q-Tip.
It sounds more like self preservation to me.
Oh look who found their clip-on balls today
Mother gave him the keys to his ball cage
I would hope not after the Trump mob tried to hang Pence. What even is this timeline.
not only that, but ask yourself why it was important that he “know” (and trust) the driver of his escape car?
he was afraid trump would disappear him.
I’m usually on board with you, but I think “disappear” is a bit too far at that stage. More likely it was “sheltered in a secure location” or “sequestered at Andrews AFB,” but either way not to return to Chambers so Grassley could take over and throw the certification to a House vote.
At that stage they’d need the legitimacy of Pence being alive and safe, but unable to perform duties due to the unrest. Hammer and anvil.
Dispose of him later when things are done & dusted with the new regime installed.
Um… Just speculating.
What??
This is like when eary life evolved a soft-tissue that resembled a spine. It wasn’t a spine, but it resembled one.
it looks like all these people would be ruining their whole careers by doing some of these things, I wonder if a standardly randomized IQ test and public results shoud be a thing for US public servents
Hard no. We’re not “testing” people for public office. Smells too much like testing for the vote.
We are not no, and look how well it is working. I get that doing things that is unfair is unfair but this point is to me more fair, not less.
So glad he finally grew a spine. There’s hope for paralyzed people everywhere.
It’s insane how low the bar is for Republicans to be given credit. Doing his job as VP and certifying a lawful election shouldn’t earn him any praise. Not endorsing the man who sent an angry mob to stop him from doing his job shouldn’t earn him any praise.
This is not a man who “grew a spine,” it’s a pile of wet napkins that got slightly more dry.
He should have used the 25th amendment on Trump on January 6th. His cabinet was fleeing like rats shortly afterwards, so he probably could have gotten a majority of them to sign on.
It would have saved his legacy and his party. He could have done so much good, but he chose not to.
To hell with that.
It’s only growing a spine if it risks costing you power, pence has none and is losing none. Glad he came out against the fascist, but all that might indicate is some small, at least partial return to and recognition of the rational world. He’s patting himself on the back about how virtuous this may make him seem in history, nothing more.
A sitting Republican Congressperson or party official with no intention of retiring would be demonstrating bravery coming out against the fascist.
I guess that probably doesn’t come up that much, so I dunno if there’s much historical data on Presidents who run against their Vice Presidents, but I’m not sure that it’s surprising.
In the US voting system, Presidents and Vice Presidents tend not to be that similar. You tend to choose a running mate to fill in gaps in your own appeal. Pence appeals to social conservatives, which is a weak point for Trump; Trump is gonna appeal to nativists and protectionists.
We used to pick the VP from the opposing party. I’d like to see that again.
The federal government was designed to not work from day one, but they still changed that because it caused it to not work too well.
When the president controls the executive branch and his opponent controls the legislative branch, not even the important stuff gets done.
His brother did…
