Pence has postponed his presidential campaign due to low poll numbers and financial difficulties, but he still intends to help elect “principled Republican leaders” in the future.
Pence announced at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual meeting in Las Vegas on Saturday, “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today.”
Sources close to the Pence campaign expressed serious anxiety that he wouldn’t make it to the third and final debate next month. A Republican adviser close to Pence’s campaign indicated that this was a major influence in Pence’s decision, and that fundraising efforts over the course of many days this week did little to allay this anxiety.
“There just weren’t enough donors,” the Republican aide lamented.
Even though I’m leaving this campaign, I want you to know that I will never stop working to elect conservative, moral Republicans to every position in the land. Pence prayed, “So help me God,” on Saturday.
Multiple sources told AWN that the suspension decision was kept secret among advisers. It was a surprise to many of the organisers of the event that the announcement would be made live.
The basic premise of Pence’s campaign was that he had severed ties with then-President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, and was returning the Republican Party to the conservative ideals upon which it was built under Reagan.
Pence repeatedly mentioned this theme throughout his run for president, whether it was in speeches or on campaign billboards that echoed Reagan’s 1984 campaign.
Trump, despite his legal difficulties, remains the preeminent contender in the race, and his withdrawal from the 2024 contest proves that the modern GOP has largely abandoned the kind of conservatism he symbolises.
Former Indiana governor and United States congressman Mike Pence declared his candidature for president in early June. He placed a premium on the early voting state by choosing to kick off his campaign in Iowa rather than his home state of Indiana.
He made an effort to go to each of Iowa’s 99 counties, with a focus on having personal conversations with locals. The conservative evangelical voters were a key demographic in his home state, therefore the native of the Midwest appealed to them.