Eying 2024, Pence makes 1st speech since leaving office
MEG KINNARD, Associated Press
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1of6In his first public speech since leaving office, former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a dinner hosted by Palmetto Family on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Columbia, S.C.Meg Kinnard/APShow MoreShow Less
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Former Vice President Mike Pence has begun to step toward a 2024 presidential bid in his first speech rallying conservatives around the successes of the Trump-Pence administration.
In South Carolina Thursday, he hit the Biden administration for changing former President Donald Trump’s policies and said that he and the former president made America better.
Of his future, he said, “Over the coming months, I’ll have more to say.”
But at the end of his address, Pence also showed that he remains the nation’s leading political evangelical leader by giving witness to his faith, calling on the nation to follow the direction of God, and emotionally recalling the day he became born again.
Eying 2024, Pence makes 1st speech since leaving office
MEG KINNARD, Associated Press
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1of4In his first public speech since leaving office, former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a dinner hosted by Palmetto Family on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Columbia, S.C.Meg Kinnard/APShow MoreShow Less
2of4In his first public speech since leaving office, former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a dinner hosted by Palmetto Family on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Columbia, S.C.Meg Kinnard/APShow MoreShow Less
3of4In his first public speech since leaving office, former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a dinner hosted by Palmetto Family on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Columbia, S.C.Meg Kinnard/APShow MoreShow Less
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Pence hits the 2024 circuit
The former vice president is planning more appearances in South Carolina and other key states following his first speech since leaving office.
Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks to a crowd during an event sponsored by the Palmetto Family Council on April 29, 2021. | Sean Rayford/Getty Images
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Former Vice President Mike Pence is setting out on a cross-country fundraising swing, as he begins to increase his public profile ahead of a potential 2024 White House bid.
Pence has spent several months out of the spotlight following a fallout with former President Donald Trump over the former vice president’s decision to certify the 2020 election results. But Pence’s uptick in activity including stops in a key early primary state and a planned appearance at a traditional GOP cattle call underscores how he’s beginning to lay the groundwork for a possible future run.