Presidential Profile: Former VP Mike Pence
(Editor’s note: This is part of our continuing series for all the presidential candidates for the 2024 election—No endorsement for any candidate is made)
Former Vice President Mike Pence seems caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, he can’t attack Trump because he has stated on many occasions that he was involved in helping Trump formulate his policies… On the other hand, he needs to distance himself from Trump.
One of the strategies he’s been using is comparing his personality with Trump’
s. Pence has said, “we need to bring civility back to the presidency.”
Which is a dig at Trump being “unpresidential.”But this strategy has him trailing in 3rd to 4th place, behind DeSantis, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy. Despite his name recognition and being part of Trump’s team, he has a very low popularity among many Republicans, largely because of his refusing to go along with Donald Trump’s plan on January 6 to use the electoral count dispute, which favored Trump.
However, Pence is counting on picking up the Evangelical vote—A voting block that Trump has knocked in recent months.
Here are 3 Things You Should Know:
- Winning Iowa with the Christian vote
Pence is concentrating on the Iowa Primary.
Why?
Bec
ause over two-thirds of the Iowa Republican caucus self-identify as born-again Christians and Evangelical Christians.
By branding himself the one-true conservative Christian candidate, Pence hopes to distinguish himself to this powerful Iowa group.
Of course, Sen. Scott and the others are targeting the Evangelicals as well.
- Questioning Trump’s “Christianity:
In an attempt to court the Evangelical vote, Pence said in a recent interview that, “I once invited President Trump to Bible study… He really liked the passages about the smiting and perishing of thine enemies. As he put it, ‘Ya know, Mike, there’s some really good stuff in here.’”
When asked about the FBI’s raid on Trump’s home, Pence commented, “I read that some of those classified documents they found at Mar-a-Lago were actually stuck in the president’s Bible … which proves he had absolutely no idea they were there.”
- Winning New Hampshire and South Carolina will be hard
A Pence win in Iowa doesn’t mean he has a slam-dunk chance to win New Hampshire or South Carolina.
The “Live Free or Die” state has not been a clear victory for Evangelical candidates in the past.
And Pence is unlikely to win in South Carolina because its former Governor Nikki Haley and Senator Tim Scott’s home turf, and both are seeking the Evangelical vote—particularly Scott.
[Click HERE to see the 22-minute Mike Pence wide-ranging interview with Mike Pence on Mornings with Maria.]
6 Comments on “How Mike Pence Plans to Become President: Evangelical Christians- 3 Things You Should Know [VIDEO]”
Sorry nice man, but he has showed he is inline with “those who control our federal government” and bows to their bidding. He needs to bow out gracefully.
This RINO is a CINO (Christian In Name Only).
I’m sorry I don’t trust Mr. Pence.
Sure Trump made plenty of mistakes and one of them was having Pence as part of the team.
Trump is wiser now and will be human but the mistakes will be less I figure.
I hope Trump is half way through making his list of those who need to be fired right off the bat. I honestly believe that Pence doesn’t have the backbone to do what it takes to fix our situation.
I wanted to touch on ‘Evangelical’ Christians. I am a Christian but there are so many types of Christians. I am not Evangelical and am wondering if the news is just grouping all of us under the evangelicals. I am willing to betcha there are a heck of a lot more ‘other’ Christians in the U.S.
Blame Chris Christie for this serious “mis-calculation.” He gave (then) Former Governor of Indiana’s Mike Pence’s name as a good choice as VP for the Ticket. Donald Trump accepted the “nod” and the rest is historical. First of all, as Indiana’s governor Mr. Pence, literally shredded all manufacturing. All those manufacturing companies relocated elsewhere…leaving a massive unemployment “gap” for a Republican politician to remedy…and nothing in sight to amend errors in really bad legislation putting the “final nail” in all manufacturing (and noway to open a viable “course correction”). This caused Pence’s losing the spot for re-election. Chris Christie “gave a helping hand” to Pence as Veep to Trump…and still Pence “blew the chance” for a “turn-around.” Today, Pence is fodder in the Political Arena of policy, programs, procedures and even ideas (he gets Booed). Amen. God Bless America. Read A Bible. KJV. Psalm 128. 10 Commandments everywhere. God Bless America.
He was a dud and he did not help Trump. I WISH Donald Trump would mend fences with Ron DeSantis. Had he done that with Ted Cruz in 2016, I think Donald Trump would be well into his second term right now. What a much better and less horrid America that would have been.