Former US Vice President Mike Pence announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. “This is not my time,” Pence said during a speech to members of the Republican Jewish Coalition. He has not yet announced his endorsement of any of the other Republican candidates.
Mike Pence announced his candidacy for the White House in June 2023, but failed to attract enough voters and donors.
Pence is a former US vice president in the Donald Trump administration, former governor of Indiana, and former US congressman. In the 1990s, he hosted a conservative radio talk show.
He is an evangelical Christian whose religious views, he says, shape his political stance. He called himself “Christian, conservative and Republican, in that order.”
Pence has advocated for strict immigration policies, against abortion, and against expanding civil rights for LGBTQ+ people. For much of his tenure as vice president of the United States, Pence defended Trump’s initiatives. But when Trump tried to use Pence to overturn the results of the 2020 election, the vice president refused to do so. Trump later said Pence had “gone to the dark side.”
Pence has repeatedly said he will not support Trump if he becomes the Republican nominee.
