{"id":1572203,"date":"2022-07-26T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1572203"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:52:22","slug":"pences-former-national-security-adviser-endorses-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pences-former-national-security-adviser-endorses-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence\u2019s Former National Security Adviser Endorses Trump"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fpences-former-national-security-adviser-endorses-trump%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=1572203&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--><p>Former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mike-pence\">Mike Pence<\/a>\u2019s national security adviser, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, said he would back former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> in a hypothetical 2024 matchup with his former boss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, you have to pick the lane you\u2019re gonna run with,\u201d Kellogg told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/trump-pence-national-security-endorse\">Washington Examiner<\/a> on Tuesday when asked about a possible contest between Trump and Pence. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a Trump guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the relationship between Trump and Pence, \u201cWe tried to bring him in tight,\u201d Kellogg said in reference to Pence.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s not because we haven\u2019t reached out to him.\u201d Pence advisers \u201clike Marc Short,\u201d Kellogg added in the interview, \u201chave pulled away from the Trump team,\u201d referring to the former vice president\u2019s chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Pence nor Trump have declared their candidacies for president. While Trump has strongly suggested that he might run again, there is growing speculation about a Pence 2024 candidacy as he continues to deliver speeches, including one to a conference of young conservatives in Washington on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was putting money in Las Vegas down on the table as to whether he is going to run or not, I think he is running,\u201d Kellogg said of Trump, \u201cbut I don\u2019t know.\u201d The retired general said he spoke with the former president several weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p> Dual Speeches <\/p>\n<p>Trump also returned to Washington to speak for the first time in more than a year, telling a crowd that the United States needs to place more emphasis on public safety amid rising crime, drug use, and homelessness.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/05\/03\/GettyImages-643206404-1200x868.jpg\"><\/a> Then- President Donald Trump (C) and Keith Kellogg (R) in a file photo. (Nicholas Kamm\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Americans \u201cdon\u2019t have safety\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t have freedom\u201d right now, Trump said during a speech at the\u00a0America First Policy Institute\u2019s America First Agenda Summit on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur country is now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s national security adviser, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, said he would back former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 matchup with his former boss. \u201cSometimes, you have to pick the lane you\u2019re gonna run with,\u201d Kellogg told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday when asked about a possible contest between Trump [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572203","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}