Former Vice President Mike Pence will not endorse Trump in 2024

[Enquiring_Mind]

Source: CNBC

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he would not endorse his former boss for president, as Trump seeks another term in office.

“I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence said on Fox News.

Trump “is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years,” Pence continued.

The startling announcement came as Trump secured enough Republican delegates this week to clinch the party’s nomination.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/former-vice-president-mike-pence-will-not-endorse-trump-for-president.html

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Hard to endorse a guy whose supporters wanted to hang you, I suppose.

[riversedge]

1. Video: Pence: I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year...........

Link to tweet

?s=20

[ificandream]

2. Pence is really a character.

Religious fanatic and political hack, yet if it wasn't for him we'd probably have Trump as president now. Would love to see someone do a really insightful biography of him.

[NoRethugFriends]

13. no we wouldn't. he couldn't do what Trump wanted him to do

[ShazzieB]

15. No, Pence couldn't have done what TSF wanted legally...

But that wouldn't have been enough to stop a truly MAGA-minded V.P. from doing it anyway and creating a constitutional crisis.

I for one am glad Pence wasn't brainwashed enough to do as TSF asked. As disturbingly compliant as he was with much of TSF's b.s., he was able to draw the line when it mattered the most.

I think he deserves credit for his actions on J6, and declining to endorse Trump now is good, too. A person can suck in some ways while still deserving credit for the times when they don't suck.

[markodochartaigh]

19. I never thought that I would have anything

good to say about either Dan Potato(e) Quayl(e) or Mike Pence, but I guess that it is true that animals can see good in a person when people can't. The fly was right.

/s

[All Mixed Up]

20. It definitely would have caused a constitutional crisis but I still don't think it would have ended with Trump as prez.

Regardless, Pence saved this country an even worse fate.

[ShazzieB]

21. I don't think it would have ended with Trump as prez, either.

But it would been a hell of a mess all the same, and I'm glad it didn't come to that.

[NanaCat]

31. All we can do is deal with the positive

However little there may be of it. That's how we build the coalition that keeps TSF from the White House. Few of our allies will be as ideologically pure as we'd like, but it's better to have them doing the right thing with us, nevertheless, than to have them on the other side.

It's all hands on deck time. We can't be too choosy about our allies when so much is at stake.

[ShazzieB]

44. 100% agreement here!

[Upthevibe]

38. ificandream........

I agree with you. I'd love for someone to do a real in depth biography of him. I don't agree with his stands, of course....anti-LGBTG+, anti-choice, etc. Having said that, I think he sincerely believes what he believes.

Also, I 100% agree that if it wasn't for him dt would be President and Democracy would be over....

[BeyondGeography]

3. Every little bit helps

The best thing about this is Trump now has to answer questions about it.

[et tu]

4. lil late but it's a start nt

[UpInArms]

5. Better late than never,

Mother’s husband

[riversedge]

6. there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump." -Former VP Dick Cheney

hopefully, Cheney holds some sway with a some Republicans.

“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump."
-Former VP Dick Cheney

Link to tweet

?s=20

[pazzyanne]

24. Never thought I would agree with Dick Cheney on anything!

[NanaCat]

32. I loathe him

But the last thing I'd ever do is spurn his help, however uneasy it makes me to have him opposed to the same thing we are.

Even now, he's a powerful guy, politically, with ties to other quite powerful people, especially the wealthy kind. He can get things done on that side of the aisle that we probably couldn't--and never would.

[COL Mustard]

41. Unfortunately they all think he's

A RINO globalist probably funded by Soros.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. At least he didn't leave us hanging. NT

[angrychair]

14. I see what you did there

And I like it ..

[Autumn]

8. He will. Just not right now.

[Voltaire2]

9. That's my take too.

Meanwhile where is Bush, dimwit? or is Dick f'ing Cheney still somehow alive? Oh he is, too bad. Those fuckers created this nightmare, maybe they ought to speak up too.

[All Mixed Up]

22. Early yet.

[NanaCat]

33. Ol' Crashcart Cheney hates TSF

As much as we do. He knows that Tangerine Twitler is so toxic and stupid that he could very well undo the free-market authoritarian paradise he and the GQP have been working to build since Nixon.

[mountain grammy]

17. Ohhhh yeah!

Him and Nikki. Unite the party!

[Raven123]

10. If a Mike Pence speaks, does anyone care?

[durablend]

11. But he *will* be voting for him, amiright?

[Pototan]

12. What a sore sport

Withholding your endorsement from Trump just because he wanted to hang you.

[mysteryowl]

16. Well, well. He is finally standing up for himself.

[Jilly_in_VA]

18. Well, Good for Him

But too little, too late.

[twodogsbarking]

23. Did the attempt at hanging you by a rope have anything to do with this? Get over it.

[D23MIURG23]

25. Pence isn't a great guy, but I'm glad there are lines he won't cross.

That makes him more courageous than most Republicans. That isn't nothing.

[agingdem]

26. Now that's what I call a fierce repudiation of

his former boss!!!...Mike Pence is a jellyfish in human form...

[Firestorm49]

27. Pence won't endorse an idiot? So what!

I don’t much give two shits what Mike Pence does or does not do. He's just another waste of a Republican.

[Grins]

28. Who loaned him a spine? NM

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. It only means Pence calculates Republicans will be creamed this year from top down

It is the old guard Republicans saying they don't want to be associated with the Johnson-tRump failure they think is coming.

[NanaCat]

30. Amazing the clarity one gets

When someone tries to get you killed.

[Bengus81]

34. Must of finally had that come to Jesus meeting--with himself.........n/t

You won't support him,then don't vote for him either.

[sop]

35. Pence must know Trump is going to lose.

[Shermann]

36. Is it really "startling"? The bromance ended long ago. nt

[Oopsie Daisy]

37. I wonder if Trump cares... or if this is "killing" him and getting under his skin.

[kimbutgar]

39. But in the voting booth he'll vote for the orange maggot because he can't vote for President Biden

Party over country pence.

[Srkdqltr]

40. What absolute difference can his vote do? Who in this world really cares what he thinks?

[Bucky]

42. This reminds me of Ted Baxter from the last episode of Mary Tyler Moore

Ted threatens to resign when the new station manager fires Lou, Mary, & Murray. Of course the spineless Ted backs down, but as Murray observes, "When a donkey flies, you don't blame him for not staying up that long."

Prediction: Pence will find some way to backtrack.

[wryter2000]

43. Maybe a vestigial spine?

Oh, well...we have him to thank that J6 didn't turn the government over to Trump. I will thank him for that.