Mike Pence Touts Presidential Run

With Donald Trump announced as a 2024 presidential run, the next presidential election cycle has commenced. So far, majority of the talk has been about Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, while speculation about others are sidelined for the two widely considered viable contenders. Former Vice President Mike Pence has been routinely throwing around his influence in primary cycles, even challenging Trump on numerous occasions.

Mike Pence told Breitbart News that GOP candidates focused on the future and solving the problems voters face today “did quite well” in the midterm election. He also said he and his family will give “prayerful consideration” over the holidays to whether he intends to run for president in 2024.

According to Breitbart:

In terms of our role, I can tell you we are going to give prayerful consideration to what role we might play in the months and years ahead as we gather over the Christmas holidays but whether I’m a candidate for president or whether I’m championing another candidate I promise you I’ll never stop fighting for the conservative policies and values that have defined my public life since the very start,” Pence said.

Asked if he would back Trump in a general election should he win the nomination — even though he thinks there will be “better options” in the primary this time — Pence did not rule out backing Trump but put his faith in GOP primary voters.

“I believe there will be better options. I believe there will be better choices. I have great confidence in Republican primary voters,” Pence said. “As I said, nobody could have defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 other than Donald Trump. Republican primary voters knew what we needed in a standard-bearer in that election. I have every confidence that Republican primary voters will sort out who would best be our standard-bearer for the 2024 election. I’ll leave that to them and we’ll reflect deeply on what role we might play.”

I guess we are wondering when Mike Pence ever fought for conservative values, because it wasn’t as Governor of Indiana and it wasn’t as Vice President of the United States. In either case, there is no reason to doubt the lack of appeal Pence has in the early polls.