Former Indiana governor and candidate for Republican nomination tells Fox News decision ‘should come as no surprise’

Former Indiana governor and candidate for Republican nomination tells Fox News decision ‘should come as no surprise’

Mike Pence will not endorse for president Donald Trump, the man he served as vice-president for four years but whose supporters chanted for Pence to be hanged as they attacked Congress on January 6.

“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” the former Indiana governor and former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination told Fox News on Friday.

Asked why, given that he previously promised to endorse the eventual nominee, Pence mentioned 6 January 2021, the day a mob attacked Congress and Trump was reported to have told aides Pence “deserved” to be hanged for refusing to block certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.

  • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    8 months ago

    It’s only be a spine if he gets out there and basically campaigns for Biden. If he asks any remaining same conservatives to abandon the Republican party and join the Democrats, until the Republicans wither and die and the Democrats split into a sane pair of parties that can disagree but compromise like it used to be.

    But he won’t do that. None of them have so far.

    • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      That’s the fucking wild part. Even the few that kind of pitched a little fit on the way stopped short of a good “Look at yourselves, look at what you’ve become!” Type thing.

      I don’t know if it’s a matter of future employment prospects or if they are all really ready to embrace fascism before conceding they broke the system… but it’s sad.