Mike Pence formally announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. On Wednesday afternoon, the former vice president will address an audience in Iowa.
Pence, who has long been expected to run for president, filed his papers with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
In his less than three-minute video, the former Indiana governor took shots at Joe Biden, inflation, and border tensions. He also singled out “enemies of freedom” all throughout the world, including a three-second photo of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping.
“Timeless American values are under assault like never before,” Pence said in the announcement video, quoting former presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
Pence, like many other Republican candidates, made no mention of Donald Trump in the video. His candidacy is the first for a former vice president to run for president against a former president with whom he shared a ticket.
Trump is currently ahead in the polls, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis trailing him by over 30 percentage points. Pence has routinely polled in the single digits in third place.
Pence, on the other hand, concentrated on his conservative message.
“Every time our country has produced leadership that has called on this country to do difficult things,” Pence said, “the American people have always risen to the challenge.” “And we shall do so again. We simply need governance that is as capable as our people.”
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Along with DeSantis and Trump, eight Republican contenders have officially entered the race, the most recent being North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who launched his campaign on Wednesday. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie formally entered the race on Tuesday during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire.
Pence, who was a member of the House of Representatives for a decade before becoming Indiana governor, joins a crowded Republican field.
Pence has recently appealed to his evangelical Christian and anti-ab0rtion supporters.
“God is not done with America yet,” he stated in the video statement.
Pence defied Trump by claiming he lacked the power to decide whose electoral votes should be counted. Some Trump supporters were enraged, with one tiny group shouting to “hang Mike Pence.” Pence’s birthday is also on Wednesday. He is 64.
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