Pence to launch presidential campaign with new strategy against Trump.

Former Vice President Mike Pence to Launch Presidential Campaign

Exciting news for political enthusiasts! According to multiple reports, former Vice President Mike Pence will officially announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday. Pence will hold a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, which is likely to be the first Republican primary state of the 2024 election cycle.

“Let’s fight and let’s argue over the direction of the country but let’s do it like Americans, with respect for one another,” Pence said during a May 24 appearance.

Pence, an evangelical Christian, is expected to do well in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. Unlike his former boss, Donald Trump, Pence supports a national ban on the murder of the pre-born, a position that will help him among the evangelicals in Iowa who make up a substantial portion of the state’s Republican electorate.

Contenders for the Republican Nomination

Pence will join a growing crowd of Republican candidates seeking the 2024 nomination. The list of contenders already includes:

• Donald Trump
• Ron DeSantis
• Nikki Haley
• Larry Elder
• Asa Hutchinson
• Tim Scott
• Vivek Ramaswamy

In addition to those, Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to announce his candidacy Tuesday night, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will throw his hat into the ring on Wednesday.

Pence has also differentiated himself from his former boss in his belief that Social Security, Medicare and other sotrump-reports/” title=”Pence to launch presidential campaign with new strategy against Trump.”>-called entitlement programs will have to be cut to balance the federal budget. Trump has argued that Republican shouldn’t cut either program, a policy Pence has described as “identical to Joe Biden’s.”

“I believe that democracy depends on heavy doses of civility and I think we ought to be looking for leadership that will restore a threshold of civility in public life, that will bring respect back to the dialogue,” Pence said.

Pence’s campaign will emphasize a return to civility in governance. He has recently cited an essay he wrote in 1991, titled “Confessions of a Negative Campaigner,” in which he essentially apologized for campaigning in a less than civil fashion during those early outings. “Negative campaigning, I now know, is wrong,” he wrote in that essay.

How that philosophy will play out in a campaign against the consistently pugilistic Trump remains to be seen. “For four years, we had a close working relationship,” Pence wrote in his book, “So Help Me God,” of the former president. “It did not end well.”

Stay tuned for more updates on the 2024 presidential race!

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