Corcoran Austbarr
In a recent ad for the democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, former republican vice president Mike Pence is shown saying “I cannot in good conscience endorse Donald Trump this year,” referring to the 2024 election. This was said by Pence on the CBS show “Face the Nation” in August of 2023.
After Trump pressured Pence to reject legitimate electoral votes in the days leading up to the January 6, 2021, capital insurrection, he asserted that he does not believe that anyone who “puts themselves over the Constitution,” referring to Trump, should ever be president.
Some Republicans have taken issue with the use of this clip, believing it provides the misleading implication that Pence endorses Harris instead. While Pence has distanced himself from Trump, he has made clear at a conservative forum last Aug. hosted by Fox News’ Erick Erickson that he could “never vote for Kamala Harris as president.”
Trump’s current vice president pick J.D. Vance, however, has recently voiced his support for Trump so much that he has outright denied Trump’s 2020 election loss to a Williamsport, Pa. reporter after a history of redirecting the question, saying Trump did not lose “by the words [Vance] would use.”
Trump and Vance’s current policies include cutting funding from schools that teach Critical Race Theory and “gender ideology,” pushing back on transgender inclusion and transition—particularly for minors—combatting censorship, securing the borders, taking down drug cartels and more.
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