Former Vice President of the United States Mike Pence announced this Friday that will not support the new candidacy for the Presidency of Republican Donald Trump, of whom he was right-hand man in the White House (2017-2021). “It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I will not support Donald Trump,” she said in an interview on Fox News.

Pence presented his own candidacy in June 2023 for the presidential elections next November, but he suspended his campaign in October of last year, ensuring that it was not his time. Trump, in turn, saw his candidacy for the White House mathematically guaranteed this week by achieving enough delegates in the Washington state primaries on Tuesday for his party convention to proclaim him between July 15 and 18 in Milwaukee. .

“During my campaign I made it clear that There were profound differences between us in a number of areas“, and not only in the exercise of my constitutional duties on January 6, 2021,” Pence said in reference to the attack on the Capitol, the day he refused to follow Trump’s instructions to reject the Electoral College results that were given. victory for Biden.

Yes, it has the support of the party

The former vice president has pointed out that, “in good faith,” he cannot give him his support. Another Republican candidate, the former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley Nor did he support her when she withdrew from the race at the beginning of the month, after her defeat on Super Tuesday, and assured that Trump would have to win over those who voted for her.

Trump does, however, have the general support of the Republican Party and their leaders in Congress. The last to grant it was the leader of the conservative minority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, on March 6. For the legislator, the primaries on March 5, a day known as Super Tuesday because the Republicans held elections in fifteen states, showed that Trump had earned support required of Republican voters to be the candidate