{"id":119029,"date":"2021-02-05T15:12:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119029"},"modified":"2021-02-05T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:43:14","slug":"pence-joins-conservative-youth-organization-as-presidential-scholar-will-launch-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-joins-conservative-youth-organization-as-presidential-scholar-will-launch-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence Joins Conservative Youth Organization As Presidential Scholar, Will Launch Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpence-joins-conservative-youth-organization-as-presidential-scholar-will-launch-podcast%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mike_pence_heritage_foundation.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence formally joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yaf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young America\u2019s Foundation<\/a> (YAF) as its Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar, the conservative youth organization announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVice President Pence has been a stalwart defender of individual freedom, traditional values, free markets, and limited government throughout his career of distinguished service to our country,\u201d former Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said, who is now president of YAF. \u201cNow, by partnering with YAF, the vice president will continue to attract new hearts and minds to the conservative cause, passing along the ideas of freedom\u2014just as President Reagan did before, during, and after his time in office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVice President Pence\u2019s energy and enthusiasm for Ronald Reagan\u2019s values has and will continue to inspire a new generation of young people,\u201d Walker added.<\/p>\n<p>YAF, the first iteration of which was founded in 1969 at Vanderbilt University, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-ca-reagan-ranch-young-conservatives-20170117-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described<\/a> by the Los Angeles Times as&nbsp;\u201cone of the most preeminent, influential and controversial forces in the nation\u2019s conservative youth movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>YAF described Pence as \u201ca great friend\u201d throughout his time in public office, according to a statement provided to The Daily Wire. He spoke to YAF students both as a congressman and as vice president; he also visited the organization\u2019s Reagan Ranch in 2005, which it purchased in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>In his position as Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar, Pence will be giving lectures at college campuses and student conferences as well as launching a podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout its 60-year history, Young America\u2019s Foundation has been a bulwark of the conservative movement, advancing the cause of freedom and ensuring our future leaders embrace America\u2019s founding principles and I am honored to join YAF as the Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar,\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong before I became vice president to President Donald Trump, the vision and leadership of Ronald Reagan inspired my youth and I am humbled to continue the work of advancing the conservative cause from a position bearing his name,\u201d Pence continued. \u201cNow more than ever, we need to take the case for freedom, free markets, and traditional values to the rising generation and I look forward to working with the great YAF team to ensure the torch of freedom shines bright for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>YAF\u2019s announcement comes a day after conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation announced that Pence joined them as a distinguished visiting fellow. As The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Former Vice President Mike Pence will be joining The Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow, the conservative organization announced Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOver the course of the past four years, our team at Heritage has worked closely with members of the&nbsp;Trump administration on a host of policy accomplishments,\u201d said Heritage President Kay C. James in a statement provided to The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s why I am excited Vice President Mike Pence will join forces with Heritage to ensure we continue&nbsp;to advance conservative principles and policy solutions. His allegiance to the Constitution and&nbsp;commitment to advancing a conservative policy agenda make him an outstanding fit for The Heritage&nbsp;Foundation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-vice-president-mike-pence-joins-the-heritage-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Former Vice President Mike Pence Joins The Heritage Foundation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence formally joined Young America\u2019s Foundation (YAF) as its Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar, the conservative youth organization announced Friday. \u201cVice President Pence has been a stalwart &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892741,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4914,4454,4594,4500,3849,5513],"class_list":["post-119029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-conservative","tag-joins","tag-organization","tag-pence","tag-presidential","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}