If former President Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024, former US Vice President Mike Pence has refused to declare if he would support him in the general election.
Pence was questioned about whether he would support Trump if he were to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2024 while addressing Georgetown University students on Wednesday night (local time).
He answered, “Well, there might be somebody else I’d prefer more,” to the cheers of the audience.
He stated he was only thinking about the midterms for now, but he also remarked, “I’ll keep you posted.”
During one point in Pence’s speech, audience members protested by leaving the room for a brief period of time.
As he prepares for a potential presidential run in 2024, Pence has been traversing the nation to support Republican midterm candidates.
Some of the people he has backed have held the populist and segregationist viewpoints he appeared to object to on Wednesday. For instance, Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters from Arizona has criticised U.S. funding on Ukraine and called the Russia-Ukraine crisis a “European problem.”
The conservative “Freedom Agenda” that Pence unveiled earlier this year was a major theme of his speech.
It serves as a specific plan of action for Republicans and an undercurrent of criticism for Trump, who has devoted a large portion of his time since leaving office to fretting over the 2020 race.
Since he declined to participate in the former president’s illegal scheme to try to thwart the will of voters in January 2021, Pence has come under fire from Trump.
Regarding his vote for Trump, Pence said: “There might be someone else I’d prefer more.”
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