A new candidate joining the Republican party for the 2024 election is former Vice President Mike Pence, who has submitted the required documentation for his application to the Federal Election Commission.

An evangelical conservative and staunch opponent of abortion will make his campaign entry official on Wednesday, the day of his 64th birthday, with a performance in Iowa that traditionally opens the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Then it will make its national presentation at a televised event in an unusual setting.

Pence was Donald Trump’s vice president from 2017 to 2021 and will run against the former president in the primary, who also announced his intention to return to the White House.

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The official distanced himself from Trump after he broke into the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 when a mob of his supporters stormed in violently.

That day, Pence ignored Trump’s claim to frustrate the session in which Congress would ratify Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.

Constantly rebuked by Trump after Biden’s victory – and even a “traitor!” at a conservative conference in Florida, Pence continued to publicly praise the former president.

That changed when a spate of false claims about Trump’s voter fraud led a Capitol-bound mob to chant that Pence be hanged.

Pence has spent much of the past two years touring early nominees, such as Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire, to cement his political vision of “Christian, Conservative, and Republican, in that order” .

His entry into the electoral arena doesn’t change much of a race that has three well-defined lanes: Trump’s as overwhelming leader, that of his closest rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and then the rest.