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.
This is like when eary life evolved a soft-tissue that resembled a spine. It wasn’t a spine, but it resembled one.
Never thought I’d think of a “notochord” in reference to politics, but here we are.
As an aside, I love how ‘notochord’ sounds when it is pronounced. It has a good flow.
Just a big, thick, flaccid, spine-like structure?
It’s not real unless it happens to them.
“Will you endorse the man who tried to send an angry mob to hang you in order to stop the peaceful transition of power in the United States?”
“Probably not.”
It’s crazy that people are acting like this is some brave stance on pence’s part. Jesus, Republicans get to enjoy such a low bar for being praised.
Yes very true, but how often does it happen where a former American vp does not endorse their presidential counterpart’s future bids for president?
According to my calculations, it happens roughly as often as a serving American VP is sent a big unruly mob riled up on the idea of VP-killing by their current American president.
I feel like Liz Cheney and the other never trumpers could become Democrats and they would be praised and win any primary
Endorse Biden you coward. His opponent’s supporters wanted to hang you.
If he did I think he would get legit death threats, there would be a nonzero chance that his constituents would lynch him.
They already tried to lynch him
Ah yes, but what about second lynching?
All the more reason to endorse a dude who isn’t leading insurrectionist terrorists.
I don’t think its biologically possible for a republicunt to endorse anyone outside the party, even in this insane political climate.
He did the ultimate limit of what they are willing to do, and I am hoping it is a wake up call to those with ears to hear.
Oh look who found their clip-on balls today
Mother gave him the keys to his ball cage
So glad he finally grew a spine. There’s hope for paralyzed people everywhere.
To hell with that.
It’s only growing a spine if it risks costing you power, pence has none and is losing none. Glad he came out against the fascist, but all that might indicate is some small, at least partial return to and recognition of the rational world. He’s patting himself on the back about how virtuous this may make him seem in history, nothing more.
A sitting Republican Congressperson or party official with no intention of retiring would be demonstrating bravery coming out against the fascist.
All true. He probably feels smug about keeping his mouth shut for this long.
I hope history remembers him for continuing to orate with a fly crawling around on his face :-)
Fyi, I didn’t mean to diminish your joke, I just had a pedant moment, apologies.
LOL 😂 Nah it was great. I’m pretty sure we’re speced for serious discussions here anyway… I just don’t know how anyone 😉
Gotta make jokes. It’s either that or cry/ be paralyzed by existential dread.
Credit due for Pence consulting Dan Quayle and getting sane advice. I’m no fan, but I’ll give him that much.
“Hey man, can a VP just decide who is the next president? No? Damn, I guess I won’t, then.” So brave.
It’s insane how low the bar is for Republicans to be given credit. Doing his job as VP and certifying a lawful election shouldn’t earn him any praise. Not endorsing the man who sent an angry mob to stop him from doing his job shouldn’t earn him any praise.
This is not a man who “grew a spine,” it’s a pile of wet napkins that got slightly more dry.
He should have used the 25th amendment on Trump on January 6th. His cabinet was fleeing like rats shortly afterwards, so he probably could have gotten a majority of them to sign on.
It would have saved his legacy and his party. He could have done so much good, but he chose not to.
It’s only be a spine if he gets out there and basically campaigns for Biden. If he asks any remaining same conservatives to abandon the Republican party and join the Democrats, until the Republicans wither and die and the Democrats split into a sane pair of parties that can disagree but compromise like it used to be.
But he won’t do that. None of them have so far.
That’s the fucking wild part. Even the few that kind of pitched a little fit on the way stopped short of a good “Look at yourselves, look at what you’ve become!” Type thing.
I don’t know if it’s a matter of future employment prospects or if they are all really ready to embrace fascism before conceding they broke the system… but it’s sad.
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.
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.
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.
It sounds more like self preservation to me.
Doesn’t mean he won’t vote for him.
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I’m not sure if this is for Donald Trump or Mike Pence, but either way…
i really respect that!
I give it a month, two max, before his spine fails him and he endorses Trump. We’ve seen it happen many times before.
His brother did…
Lmao. This pathetic weasel couldn’t stand for anything good, but I guess at least he saved some small piece of dignity by not kissing the ring of a fascist despot after he wanted to have him hanged by a mob of gravy seal Nazis.
He refused to comment on it before and got mocked for it. Why now?
This means nothing.
I wouldn’t say that.
I mean it doesn’t mean a lot.
Though it may just be the first stitch popping, with more to come.
It is noteworthy that rarely is there ever public dissent at that level of republicunt power.
That’s true! I really meant this means nothing to his fan base. I hope it leads to more people doing the same.
I think there’s a growing number of republican politicians that are realizing they are on the wrong side of history.
Anyone still clinging to trumpty dumpty will be dragged off the wall with his fall.
The only ones who are going to make it out with a career are those who disavow early.
