Mike Pence served for four years as Donald Trump’s Vice President.
Pence then challenged Trump in the Presidential Primary.
And now Mike Pence made this awful final betrayal of Donald Trump.
Pence refuses to endorse Donald Trump
Mike Pence appeared at conservative pundit Erick Erickson’s event called The Gathering, where he faced questions about how he would vote in the 2024 election.
Pence called for a return to Mitt Romney-Liz Cheney Republican Party and announced he couldn’t vote for Trump.
“The fact that we have a platform that removed 50 years of pro-life language, made no mention of the national debt, advocated massive taxes at our borders. And abandoning commitments that we have to allies around the world are deeply troubling to me and deeply disappointing,” Pence stated.
Donald Trump nominated the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade.
But Pence claimed Trump’s position that abortion was a state’s rights issue was a bridge too far for him.
That was really just a political fig leaf Pence sought.
The real reason Pence opposed Trump’s candidacy was because Trump called for ending the war in Ukraine and opposed the Washington, D.C., Swamp’s awful trade deals that shipped U.S. jobs to Mexico and Communist China.
Pence claimed Republican voters should heckle Trump and other candidates running on the GOP platform to get them to cave in to the Swamp’s demands for more Ukraine funding and globalist trade deals.
“But I honestly believe, and make no mistake about it. You got people from all over the country and people watching all over the country. We can, we can help our our candidates at every level. By speaking the truth to them respectfully,” Pence added.
That’s why Pence told Erickson he couldn’t endorse anyone in the upcoming Presidential Election.
“For my part, I’m staying out of the presidential campaign,” Pence declared.
Ukraine is Pence’s line in the sandÂ
Pence made it clear his number one beef with Trump and J.D. Vance is that they don’t support a blank check for an endless war in Ukraine.
“For the reason that I cannot endorse this growing abandonment of our allies on the world stage that’s taken hold in parts of our party. I cannot endorse ignoring our national debt that reached $35 trillion just in the last week. I cannot support marginalizing the right to life in our party as we saw in our national platform,” Pence said to Erickson.
Pence’s Presidential campaign was an explicit call to take the GOP back in time to the days when establishment RINOs like Romney, Cheney, and John McCain supported open borders, endless wars, and selling out American workers to the globalist agenda.
That sales pitch found no purchase with GOP voters.
Now Pence is hoping that, by sabotaging Trump’s campaign, Republicans won’t notice the GOP establishment helped Harris win and then Swamp RINOs like Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and their ilk can swoop in to regain control of the Party.
The new Republican platform is a troubling shift in our party. It removed years of pro-life language, made no mention of the national debt, advocated for massive taxes, and abandoned commitments to allies around the world.
Conservatives must speak the truth. pic.twitter.com/Vf9pbyxSk9
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) August 9, 2024
