Donald Trump is facing lawfare and the Democratic Party in the 2024 election.
The hill Trump needs to climb just grew steeper.
And Donald Trump just got betrayed at the worst possible moment.
Before Mike Pence ended his failed presidential campaign, Pence signed a pledge to support the eventual nominee in order to appear on stage at the Republican National Committee presidential primary debates.
Republicans now learned Pence’s word literally isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on as Pence told Fox News host Martha MacCallum that he will not endorse Donald Trump for president now that Trump officially wrapped up the GOP nomination.
“We have not spoken since former President Trump sewed up the nomination, which he did earlier this week,” MacCallum began. “And he has received endorsements from some of the people who were running against him. But we have not heard from you. Will you be endorsing your former president?”
“Well, Martha, I appreciate the question. And it should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year. Look, I’m incredibly proud of the record of our administration. It was a conservative record that made America more prosperous, more secure and saw conservatives appointed to our courts in a more peaceful world,” Pence stated.
Pence campaigned for president as the heir to the Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney wing of the GOP by focusing his entire campaign on attacking Donald Trump over what happened over January 6 and for Trump’s refusal to support a blank check for Joe Biden’s war in Ukraine.
The former vice president claimed Trump opposed the establishment on January 6 – Trump promised that one of his first actions in office would be to pardon wrongfully imprisoned and convicted nonviolent protesters – and Ukraine was why Pence couldn’t support Trump’s candidacy.
“But that being said, during my presidential campaign, I made it clear there were profound differences between me and President Trump on a range of issues. And not just our difference on my constitutional duties that I exercised on January 6th,” Pence added.
MacCallum then asked Pence if that meant he would cast a ballot for Biden since he isn’t endorsing Donald Trump.
Pence dismissed that option.
“I would never vote for Joe Biden,” Pence responded.
But Pence gave the media and the Democrats exactly what they needed – an avatar for the “never again Trump” voters who the Biden campaign hopes will either stay home on Election Day or defect to Biden.
Biden is trailing in all the polls because voters reject his presidency as failed due to open borders, inflation, and Biden bungling America into World War 3.
A New York Times/Siena poll found that Trump retained 97 percent of his 2020 voters whereas Biden kept just 83 percent, meaning that a big chunk of voters who cast a ballot for Biden four years ago are now for Trump or undecided.
Democrats hope establishment Republicans like Pence refusing to endorse Trump will eat into Trump’s numbers and get Biden back in the game.