Former VP Mike Pence wants to be president
Former Vice President Mike Pence is going around the country fundraising in advance of a potential 2024 bid, Politico reports.
Pence has been taking the spotlight lately, making stops in key early primary states while he’s at it. He plans to appear at a traditional GOP cattle call. It’s the groundwork for a run at the presidency.
He broke with Trump at the end, but thinks he can overcome that. He has a book coming out in the Fall.
He has RINO appearances set up:
According to a person familiar with the plans, his schedule includes a pair of stops in Texas next week. Pence is to speak at a fundraiser hosted by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and on May 7 he is slated to appear at a donor appreciation event hosted by former George W. Bush political adviser Karl Rove. The former vice president will be interviewed onstage by Republican Sen. John Cornyn, according to a copy of the schedule.
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House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney is the highest-ranking female Republican in Congress.
After she publicly fist-bumped Biden and continued to criticize Trump, some want her out of leadership.
Cheney is a veteran of Republican politics, but today s GOP differs greatly from even 5 years ago.
For years, GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming has been seen as a rising star within the party, a straight-talking conservative woman from a dynastic Republican family who ascended to House leadership only two years after her first congressional race.
Cheney was first elected to office on the same day that former President Donald Trump was voted into the White House in 2016.
The reckoning over what it means to be a Republican and how the party can rebuild is the inevitable result of 2020 loses that left the White House and Congress in Democratic control.
Assessing the way forward is “a normal growing pain for a party coming off of a presidential loss,” Ryan said. “I think it’s wrong to suggest that this party is bifurcated around one person.”
His views on the GOP will be showcased next month as part of a speaker series at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, which is reopening its doors after more than a year-long pandemic closure. At issue: What is the future of the Republican Party?
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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.