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Former Vice President Mike Pence has mentioned he is not going to endorse former President Donald Trump within the 2024 election, however Pence has additionally mentioned he “may by no means” vote for Trump’s opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. An edited video on social media misleadingly purports to point out Pence endorsing Harris. He didn’t.
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Within the days main as much as and on Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress met to rely the electoral votes and certify the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump repeatedly pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject official electoral votes and ship them again to the state legislatures to determine, in response to the indictment in opposition to Trump filed in August 2023.
However on Jan. 7, Pence introduced the licensed outcomes and declared then-Vice President Joe Biden the victor, as we’ve written.
Since then, Pence has distanced himself from Trump. When Pence introduced his campaign for president in June 2023, he mentioned, “I consider that anybody who places themselves over the Structure ought to by no means be president of america,” referring to Trump.
In the course of the first Republican primary debate on Aug. 23, 2023, nevertheless, Pence indicated that he would help Trump if the previous president have been chosen because the get together’s nominee. Then in March, Pence introduced in a Fox Information interview that he would not endorse Trump for the 2024 election.
In August, Pence appeared at a forum for conservative leaders hosted by former Fox Information commentator Erick Erickson, the place he expanded on his choice, saying, “I can’t endorse President Trump’s persevering with assertion that I ought to have put aside my oath to help and defend the Structure and acted in a means that might’ve overturned the election in January 2021.”
In each interviews, Pence additionally made it clear he has no intention of supporting the Democratic ticket.
Throughout his look on the conservative discussion board, Pence said, “I may by no means vote for Kamala Harris as president of america or Tim Walz as her operating mate. Interval. Paragraph.”
However social media customers have clipped Pence’s remarks on the discussion board in order that he seems to be endorsing Vice President Harris.
An Oct. 14 post on Threads shared a model of the video, through which Pence’s first three phrases have been edited out. Within the video, he seems to say, “Vote for Kamala Harris as president of america or Tim Walz as her operating mate. Interval. Paragraph.”
The video was additionally shared to Instagram with the caption, “MIKE PENCE CAUTIONS AMERICANS TO VOTE FOR HARRIS/WALZ.”
However the video shared on social media cuts out the context that makes it clear Pence was not endorsing Harris for president.
Harris has received some support from outstanding Republicans and former Trump allies, together with former Rep. Liz Cheney and former White Home Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.
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