U.S._ Lost in space: Pence struggles to find political home in Trump-dominated 2024 race

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Lost in space: Pence struggles to find political home in Trump-dominated 2024 race

Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) “Night to Honor Israel,” during the CUFI Summit 2023, Monday, July 17, 2023, in Arlington, Va., at the Crystal Gateway Marriott. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) more >


By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times - Monday, July 24, 2023


Former Vice President Mike Pence is a man without a home in the 2024 Republican presidential race, so much so that he is in jeopardy of being disqualified for the party’s first debate next month in Milwaukee.

Alarm bells went off after Mr. Pence raised less than $1.2 million over the second fundraising quarter of the year. The sum is paltry for the seasoned political veteran who helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016 and served as his loyal sidekick for four years.

“The starting point should be who would even think that Pence has a chance in Trump’s party,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “He did start out the year with better than expected approval ratings, but once the indictments rolled in and the politics of grievance was brought back to the boil, Pence again became the pariah for most Republican voters that he was in the January 6 aftermath.”

Mr. Pence’s refusal to cower to Mr. Trump’s demand that he block the certification of state electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021, won applause from constitutional conservatives and legal scholars who agreed with his take. They celebrated the vice president’s willingness to defend the nation’s founding document.

Mr. Pence hoped the stance would help him court traditional conservatives, anti-Trump Republicans and any disaffected Make America Great Again voters.

That plan has yet to come to fruition.

Indeed, most of the MAGA world has written off Mr. Pence as persona non grata.

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