Mike Pence will kick off his presidential campaign on Wednesday from Iowa, an early-voting state Trump won in 2016 and 2020
Former Vice President Mike Pence announced in a video on Wednesday that he is running for president against his former boss — Donald Trump — because, he said, « Different times call for different leadership. »
In the video, however, Pence did not once mention or show an image of Trump or the event which caused their split: the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
Instead, Pence cast the contest as a battle for a country that is « in trouble » under President Joe Biden and what Pence calls the radical left.
« We’re better than this. We can turn this country around, but different times call for different leadership. Today, our party and our country need a leader that will appeal, as [Abraham] Lincoln said, to the better angels of our nature, » Pence said in the video. « It’d be easy to stay on the sidelines — but that’s not how I was raised. That’s why today, before God and my family, I’m announcing I’m running for president of the United States. »
Pence is set to kick off his campaign alongside family and supporters on Wednesday afternoon in Iowa, an early-voting state he plans to barnstorm to beat Trump on the road to the Republican presidential nomination.
The former congressman and Indiana governor filed paperwork on Monday with the Federal Election Commission to make his candidacy official.
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