{"id":1997224,"date":"2023-08-10T20:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T00:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-speaks-about-gop-leadership-change-at-iowa-state-fair-as-trump-fumes\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T00:51:10","slug":"pence-speaks-about-gop-leadership-change-at-iowa-state-fair-as-trump-fumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-speaks-about-gop-leadership-change-at-iowa-state-fair-as-trump-fumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence addresses GOP leadership shift at Iowa State Fair while Trump seethes."},"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\">24<\/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-speaks-about-gop-leadership-change-at-iowa-state-fair-as-trump-fumes%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=1997224&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--><h2>Former Vice President\u2063 Mike Pence Takes on Trump at Iowa State \u2063Fair<\/h2>\n<p>Former \u2062Vice President Mike Pence\u2064 made a bold appearance at \u2062the\u200b Des\u200c Moines Register political soapbox \u200bat the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, while his\u2062 former boss\u2064 and 2024 rival, ex-President Donald Trump,\u200d expressed his \u200dfrustration on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>\u200b over their 2020 election disagreement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-wounded-in-four-weekend-mass-shootings-across-four-cities-as-police-chiefs-brace-for-bloody-summer\/\" title=\"Dozens Wounded In Four Weekend Mass Shootings Across Four Cities As Police Chiefs Brace For \u2018Bloody Summer\u2019\">ongoing dispute<\/a>\u200c between the two men\u2063 centers around Pence&#8217;s role in \u200drefusing\u200c to certify the 2020 election results after\u200d President Joe Biden&#8217;s victory. While Pence has consistently maintained that he was obligated to follow the Constitution and certify\u2063 the \u200cresults, Trump argues that Pence had the power to send disputed votes back \u200dto the \u200dstates.<\/p>\n<h3>Debate Over Abortion Stances<\/h3>\n<p>As Pence inches closer to \u2063launching a\u200d presidential bid, he has been careful not to directly confront Trump. However, in light of last week&#8217;s\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-speaks-about-gop-leadership-change-at-iowa-state-fair-as-trump-fumes\/\" title=\"Pence addresses GOP leadership shift at Iowa State Fair while Trump seethes.\">federal \u2063grand\u200b jury indictment<\/a>\u2064 against the \u200cformer president for his efforts to overturn the 2020\u2064 election and the subsequent Capitol\u200b riot\u200d on\u2063 January 6th, Pence has \u2063become more vocal in his criticisms of Trump. Unsurprisingly, his old \u200dboss was not pleased.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I never\u2063 asked Mike Pence to &#8216;disregard the Constitution.&#8217; Nor did I tell him that he \u2064was &#8216;too honest.&#8217;\u200d He is \u200cunder great\u200c pressure and getting very bad \u200cadvice from Marc &#8216;Long&#8217; and perhaps \u200dsome of his \u2062other \u2064advisers,&#8221;\u200d Trump wrote \u2063on Truth Social while Pence was addressing the Iowa crowd.\u200c &#8220;His poll \u2062numbers\u200d have \u2062just gone down from\u2063 an already anemic level.\u2063 Liddle\u2019\u200b Mike now wants to\u2064 be a tough guy. He could have had greatness, but chose another \u2064path!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, during a\u200d question-and-answer session, Pence acknowledged his contentious relationship with\u200c Trump when an attendee accused him of committing \u2062treason on \u200bJanuary 6th. Pence responded, &#8220;There\u2019s \u2062almost no idea more un-American than\u200d the notion that any one person could pick the American president.&#8221; \u200bHe then referenced Article 2\u2063 of the \u2064Constitution, which states\u200c that he had a duty to certify the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-real-clear-politics-say-they-never-called-pennsylvania\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Real Clear Politics -- SAY THEY NEVER CALLED PENNSYLVANIA\">electoral votes<\/a> as \u200bpresident \u2064of the Senate. \u2063&#8221;The American presidency belongs to the American people and the \u200cAmerican people alone,&#8221; \u200dPence emphasized. He continued, &#8220;I&#8217;ll always believe by God&#8217;s\u200c grace I did my duty that day.\u200b People deserve to know that on that day, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-calls-for-special-counsel-to-investigate-the-2020-presidential-election\/\" title=\"President Trump Calls for Special Counsel to Investigate the 2020 Presidential Election\">president asked<\/a> me\u200c to choose him over\u200c my \u200doath to the Constitution. I\u2062 choose\u2063 the Constitution,\u200b and I always will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The clash \u2064between Trump\u2062 and Pence comes just before the Republican National \u200cCommittee&#8217;s first primary\u2064 debate on\u200b August 23rd. Pence&#8217;s campaign announced that he has\u200c qualified for\u2062 the debate by meeting the fundraising and polling \u2064requirements. \u200bHowever, \u200dTrump has yet to sign\u200b the\u200d RNC&#8217;s loyalty\u200d oath \u200band has stated that he will\u200b decide whether to attend the debate next \u200dweek.<\/p>\n<p>Pence is also scheduled to\u2062 participate in a &#8220;Fair Side Chat&#8221; with\u200c Governor Kim Reynolds (R-IA) on Friday, along with other 2024 rivals. Notably absent \u200bfrom the\u200d event will be \u2062Trump, who has publicly\u200d feuded with\u2063 Reynolds over her neutrality in the \u200bprimary race. \u2062The former president also chose\u2062 to skip the Des Moines Register political soapbox.<\/p>\n<p>At the upcoming debate, Pence is expected to reiterate a message he emphasized\u2064 in Iowa: &#8220;We need \u2062new leadership in the White House, but I also believe we\u2062 need new leadership in the Republican Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to \u200dread more from The Washington\u200d Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence addressed the Des Moines Register political soapbox at the Iowa State Fair, while ex-President Donald Trump expressed his frustration on social media regarding their 2020 election dispute. Their ongoing disagreement revolves around Pence&#8217;s alleged involvement in rejecting certain election results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997225,"comment_status":"open","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1997224","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=1997224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}