Former Indiana governor and candidate for Republican nomination tells Fox News decision ‘should come as no surprise’

Mike Pence will not endorse for president Donald Trump, the man he served as vice-president for four years but whose supporters chanted for Pence to be hanged as they attacked Congress on January 6.

“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” the former Indiana governor and former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination told Fox News on Friday.

Asked why, given that he previously promised to endorse the eventual nominee, Pence mentioned 6 January 2021, the day a mob attacked Congress and Trump was reported to have told aides Pence “deserved” to be hanged for refusing to block certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.

  • Smacks@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Say what you will, but at the end of Trump’s presidency Pence grew a spine and told him to fuck off.

    Trump was hanging onto the idea that Pence would magically solve his problem by denying the certification. Of course, Trump’s cult went to the capitol to try and hang him. I hope he endorses the other candidates, or Biden when it comes to it. It’d be a massive middle finger to the entire cult.

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      9 months ago

      Oh please, that man still has the spine of a jellyfish.

      Even after Trump tried to have him executed he was still on the air defending this trash person and his racist trash party.

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        9 months ago

        This is the correct perspective. Mike Pence is a weird and cowardly shithead who decided to get off the crazy train at that stop. There were hundreds of previous stops that would have been appropriate exits. HIV enthusiast making sure people in Indiana get infected. Looks and personally of a Q-Tip.