Pence delivered his most potent attack to date on his former boss while announcing his own campaign for the White House Wednesday.
Former Vice President Mike Pence launched a firm rebuke of his onetime running mate, former President Donald Trump, in a speech Wednesday announcing his own campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, criticizing Trump’s role in the January 6 Capitol riots in comments that marked Pence’s most forceful rebuke of Trump to date....
The former vice president said he “chose the Constitution” that day and “always will,” adding that “Trump was wrong then and he is wrong now”—repeating statements he’s made previously that Trump endangered him and his family through “reckless” words that were widely viewed as encouraging rioters. Pence also said that Trump has strayed from the “conservative” governing principles they practiced while serving in the White House together, telling the audience in Des Moines, Iowa, “today [Trump]
makes no such promise,” noting he is “retreating from the cause of the unborn,” referring to Trump’s refusal to commit to a federal abortion ban .Pence mentioned January 6 in explaining why he’s challenging his former running mate, calling it “a tragic day in the life of our nation . . . the American people deserve to know that on that day President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution,” he said.5%.
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