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The Guardian reports: Mike Pence has not decided whether to enter the Republican presidential primary but if he does he will enter “well before late June”. The former congressman, Indiana governor and vice-president to Donald Trump has been moving towards a run for months, releasing a memoir, visiting early voting states and establishing a political staff. He made his less-than-bold …

Mediaite reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence received a less-than-stellar welcome as he addressed the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on Friday and was met with loud booing from the crowd. Pence replied with a good-natured, “I love you too,” before diving into his remarks. 2024 GOP presidential candidates including Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, and Vivek Ramaswamy are set to …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys are appealing an order for former Vice President Mike Pence to testify before the special counsel investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources familiar with the matter confirm to ABC News. Trump has previously sought to assert executive privilege in an attempt to block Pence’s testimony, but late last month …

The New York Times reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence will not appeal a federal judge’s ruling forcing him to testify in front of a grand jury investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to thwart the transfer of power after the 2020 election, an aide said Wednesday. The decision by Mr. Pence could clear the way for what could …

Politico reports: Mike Pence might harbor deep-seated resentment toward Donald Trump for his handling of Jan. 6. But it’s Nikki Haley who really gets under the Pence camp’s skin. Inside Pence’s orbit, staffers have begun privately complaining about a presidential contender who, like Pence, is polling in single digits — distressed that Haley is drawing what they view as more …

The Indianapolis Star reports: Mike Pence, the former Indiana governor and vice president, defended Donald Trump Thursday night on CNN, telling Wolf Blitzer that the former president’s indictment was an “outrage.” Pence called the indictment an example of the “criminalization of politics.” “The unprecedented indictment of a former president of the United States on a campaign finance issue is an …

The Huffington Post reports: Mike Pence on Wednesday hinted that he may not pursue a legal battle to avoid testifying in the Justice Department’s criminal probe into Donald Trump’s attempts to steal the 2020 election. “I have nothing to hide. I have written and spoken extensively about that day,” Trump’s ex-vice president, who is now considering his own bid for …

CNN reports: A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, according to multiple sources familiar with a recent federal court ruling. But the judge said – in a ruling that remains under seal – that Pence can still …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany came under fire by the MAGA faithful on Friday morning for her kind words about Mike Pence. “Excellent interview with Vice President Mike Pence on Sean Hannity,” she wrote Thursday night on Twitter. “His patriotism, love for the country, and love for his Savior on full display.” Hours later, …

The Hill reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called for “common sense” reforms to federal entitlement programs, namely Social Security and Medicare, weighing in on what is set to be a wedge issue in the 2024 presidential campaign. “If we act in this moment with the support of this generation, we can introduce common sense reforms that will …

ABC This Week anchor Jonathan Karl interviewed Mike Pence, during which he played Trump’s defense of rioters’ calls to have him hanged. Via ABC, here’s the transcript of what followed: KARL: I mean, he’s effectively justifying, or excusing, the actions of people who were calling for you to be hanged! PENCE: There is no excuse for the violence that took …

Florida Politics reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence is the latest Republican heavyweight to divorce himself from Ron DeSantis‘ foreign policy vision. During an appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday, Pence rejected DeSantis’ framing of the Russian war on Ukraine as a mere “territorial dispute,” opting to frame it as a “Russian invasion.” “Let me be clear. What’s going on …

“The idea of indicting a president of the United States is deeply troubling to me as it is to tens of millions of Americans – and particularly happening in what appears to be a politically charged environment in New York where the attorney general and other elected officials literally campaigned on a pledge to prosecute the former president. No one …

The Associated Press reports: Chasten Buttigieg was asked on ABC’s “The View” whether Pence contacted him after joking at a dinner for journalists and politicians that Pete Buttigieg took “maternity leave” after he and his husband adopted newborn twins. Chasten Buttigieg, who said he doesn’t expect to hear from Pence, called the remarks “part of a much bigger trend attacking …

“I’m a limited government conservative, and I believe in private property, free enterprise. My concern more broadly was just simply about taking action against a company in the wake of a political dispute, where the company had taken a different position than the state. “I have concerns about that in Florida. I had the exact same concerns about California, pulling …

Mediate reports: Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade openly laughed at former President Donald Trump’s attempt to claim the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters was Mike Pence’s fault. Fox & Friends declined to note that Trump’s anger prompted his supporters to chant “Hang Mike Pence” as they broke into Congress, but Kilmeade laughed at Trump blaming Pence for what …

The Guardian reports: The White House rebuked the Republican former vice-president Mike Pence on Monday, for making jokes about US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, maternity leave and postpartum depression that it said were homophobic and offensive to women. “He should apologise to women and LGBTQ+ people,” said Joe Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. Saying the secretary had taken “maternity leave” …

CNN reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence made his most blistering comments yet about former President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol during remarks Saturday evening at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, DC. Pence rebuked Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack, saying he was “wrong” for claiming Pence …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal court to block former Vice President Mike Pence from speaking to a grand jury about certain matters covered by executive privilege as part of the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss, sources familiar with the move told CNN. The request, in a new filing submitted secretly …

CBS News reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence still won’t say whether he’s running for president next year, and he won’t speak ill of his ex-boss, former President Donald Trump. But in an interview with CBS News in Michigan on Wednesday, he also twice declined to commit to supporting Trump if he is the Republican presidential nominee. Instead, Pence said …