Former Vice President of the United States Mike Pence He plans to announce his candidacy for the Republican primaries for the White House next week, according to information from the NBC news network.

Two sources familiar with the matter have confirmed to the aforementioned chain that the one who was Donald Trump’s ‘number two’p during his time as US president, between 2017 and 2021, will make an official announcement next Wednesday from Iowa.

Thus, Pence will join one more than crowded presidential race by the Republican Partyin which they have already confirmed that Trump himself and the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, will participate as the most prominent figures.

Together with the two of them, the former United States ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, the former governor of the state of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson, and the businessman Vivek Ramaswamy have also confirmed that they will appear at thes elections for the Republican Party.

For his part, President Joe Biden announced at the end of April his candidacy for the 2024 elections, where he will seek re-election in order to be able to “finish the job” started in 2020, when he managed to unseat Trump, despite his unsubstantiated allegations of electoral rigging.