{"id":1999332,"date":"2023-08-13T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-says-loyalty-pledge-is-about-the-debate-more-than-trump\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T16:54:18","slug":"mike-pence-says-loyalty-pledge-is-about-the-debate-more-than-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-says-loyalty-pledge-is-about-the-debate-more-than-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence: Loyalty pledge focuses on debate, not 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\">16<\/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%2Fmike-pence-says-loyalty-pledge-is-about-the-debate-more-than-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=1999332&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 \u2064Vice \u200bPresident Mike Pence Defends Commitment \u200cto \u2063Sign\u2062 Loyalty Pledge<\/h2>\n<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence is standing firm in his commitment to sign the loyalty pledge and engage in debates \u200bwith his \u2062fellow Republican 2024 presidential hopefuls. In \u200ca recent segment on Meet \u2063the Press, Pence took \u2064the opportunity to criticize his former boss, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<h3>Up for Debate: Where \u2062Trump, DeSantis, and Rest of Republican 2024 Field Stand on\u2064 Key Issues<\/h3>\n<p>Pence&#8217;s book contains allegations against\u200c the former president, claiming that Trump pressured\u200d him\u200d to overturn the 2020 election. However, Trump has denied these allegations. During an \u2063interview\u200b with Chuck \u200dTodd on Sunday, Pence explained that the\u2062 lawyers Trump had chosen to\u2064 advise him were \u200donly telling \u200bhim what he \u2062wanted to hear. Todd \u2062questioned how Pence could sign \u2063the loyalty pledge, which would \u200bpotentially require him \u200bto support Trump \u2063as the Republican \u200bnominee, despite his criticisms of the former president.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Well,\u200b Chuck, what I&#8217;ve\u200c said\u200c is I&#8217;m \u200dhappy to\u200b meet the criteria for the upcoming Republican presidential\u2063 debates. I\u2019m\u2062 incredibly proud that \u200cmore \u200dthan\u200b 40,000 Americans in just nine\u200d weeks have supported\u2063 our campaign and made it possible for us to \u200cqualify\u200b for the debate \u200cstage,&#8221; Pence said.\u2062 &#8220;In fact, Chuck, I think I\u2019ll qualify for the second debate before we get \u2062to the\u2064 first one because more Americans are seeing that my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-says-loyalty-pledge-is-about-the-debate-more-than-trump\/\" title=\"Pence: Loyalty pledge focuses on debate, not Trump.\">consistent conservative record<\/a>, my years\u200b as vice president, \u200bmy \u2062years as governor here in Indiana, my years as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-to-eliminate-debt-ceiling\/\" title=\"Democrats Push to Eliminate Debt Ceiling\">house conservative leader<\/a> for 12 years are really just what the nation needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Todd \u2063continued to press Pence, asking if\u2063 he\u200d considered himself a MAGA \u2062Republican. Pence avoided a \u200cdirect answer, stating that he was &#8220;proud&#8221; of the work\u2063 he \u200baccomplished during the Trump-Pence administration. Todd attempted to ask\u200c the question again.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Look, I&#8217;m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that\u2063 order. I\u2019ve always said that. People who know me, those are my values, those\u200c are my\u200b ideals,&#8221; Pence said. &#8220;I really believe that the agenda that I\u2019ve\u200c always been about, that I&#8217;m \u2063looking forward\u200c to \u200dtaking to that debate stage, is the \u200cagenda that will bring this \u2063country all \u200bthe way back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Pence \u2064has expressed his commitment to sign the pledge, he has\u200d not yet\u200b done so officially. The Washington Examiner \u200dhas reached out \u200bto the Pence campaign for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Pence is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-forecasted-to-take-225-255-house-seats-in-midterms\/\" title=\"GOP Forecasted to Take 225-255 House Seats in Midterms\">facing tough competition<\/a> \u200din the race for the GOP presidential nomination. His \u2062opponents include\u2062 former\u200c President Donald Trump, \u200cformer South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former \u200bTexas representative Will Hurd, Sen. \u200bTim Scott (R-SC), Gov. \u2062Doug \u200dBurgum (R-ND), Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), \u200bMiami Mayor Francis Suarez, political commentator\u2063 Larry Elder, businessman \u200bPerry Johnson, \u200band entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. DeSantis, \u200dRamaswamy, Burgum, Haley, and Scott \u200bhave already \u2064signed the loyalty\u2064 pledge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click \u200bhere<\/a> to read more from \u2064The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence reaffirmed his dedication to signing the loyalty pledge for debating his fellow Republican contenders in the 2024 presidential race. During his appearance on Meet the Press, Pence primarily focused on criticizing his ex-boss, Donald Trump. The positions of Trump, DeSantis, and other Republican candidates on crucial matters remain a topic of discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1999333,"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-1999332","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\/1999332","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=1999332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}