{"id":2023675,"date":"2023-09-06T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-gop-must-choose-between-conservatism-and-populism\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:39:49","slug":"pence-gop-must-choose-between-conservatism-and-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-gop-must-choose-between-conservatism-and-populism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence: GOP&#8217;s Dilemma: Conservatism or Populism"},"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\">12<\/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-gop-must-choose-between-conservatism-and-populism%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=2023675&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 Mike Pence Calls for Return to \u2062Conservative Principles<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Speaking at a New \u2062Hampshire town hall, former Vice-President \u2063Mike Pence called for the Republican party to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-gop-must-choose-between-conservatism-and-populism\/\" title=\"Pence: GOP's Dilemma: Conservatism or Populism\">stop adopting populist policies<\/a>\u200d and return to the kind of conservatism that former President Ronald\u200b Reagan espoused and typified the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHere\u200d within the Republican Party, I\u2062 think we have \u200ba choice\u2062 to \u200dmake,\u200c and \u2063that is whether \u2064or not we are going to\u200d offer the American people a \u200bcandidate and a standard bearer \u2064that will carry \u2064forward the common sense \u200cconservative agenda of a strong \u200bnational defense: American leadership in the world; fiscal responsibility \u200b\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-rescinds-trumps-apprenticeship-plan-by-executive-order\/\" title=\"Biden Rescinds Trump\u2019s Apprenticeship Plan By Executive Order\">pro-growth policies<\/a>; a commitment to\u2064 traditional values and \u200bliberty\u200d and life, or whether or not we\u2019ll \u2063follow the\u2063 siren song of populism, unmoored to conservative\u200d principle,\u201d Pence declared.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFrankly,\u200c my \u200bformer running mate \u200cand other candidates for the Republican nomination\u2063 are beginning to move away from that conservative agenda, abandoning American\u2063 leadership on the world stage, being willing to ignore the debt crisis that\u2019s facing \u200cthis \u200dfuture\u2062 generations of Americans,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the eight years of the Obama presidency, the national debt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebalancemoney.com\/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased<\/a> $8.6 trillion. In the four years of the Trump presidency, \u2064the debt increased $6.7 trillion. Between President Biden\u2019s inauguration\u200b and April 2023, the\u2064 national\u200c debt has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehofstrachronicle.com\/category\/news\/2023\/5\/23\/understanding-the-national-debt-increase-under-president-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased<\/a> roughly $3.5 trillion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAnd of \u2064course, there\u200c are those who want to marginalize the cause of life to simply\u200c being\u200b a states-only issue,\u201d Pence stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBut \u2064for me, all of those issues have\u200b been central to this movement,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Noting\u200d that he had been a Democrat when he was young, Pence noted, \u201cIt was \u2063the voice of our 40<sup>th<\/sup> president, Ronald Reagan, it was the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-asks-tim-scott-the-toughest-question-that-the-elite-will-absolutely-hate\/\" title=\"Tucker poses a tough question to Tim Scott, one that the elite will despise.\">common-sense principles<\/a> that drew me to\u200c the Republican Party, and more importantly, haven\u2019t just delivered victories for the GOP but \u2063they\u2019ve actually delivered real prosperity and real\u200c security for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019ve come to \u2063a Republican time for choosing, and we\u2019re going to choose whether our party\u2019s going to stay\u200c on that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/put-their-hands-on-their-hearts-and-just-start-singing-it-megyn-kelly-has-advice-for-fans-when-team-owners-cancel-national-anthem\/\" title=\"\u2018Put Their Hands On Their Hearts And Just Start Singing It\u2019: Megyn Kelly Has Advice For Fans When Team Owners Cancel National Anthem\">time-honored tradition<\/a>\u2062 of conservative\u200c principles or whether we\u2019re going to slide in the direction of \u200bpopulism and be more\u200c like\u200b an echo, \u200cfrankly, \u2063of the policies of the other party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at a New Hampshire town hall, Mike Pence urged the Republican party to abandon populist policies and embrace the conservatism exemplified by Ronald Reagan. He emphasized the need for a crucial decision within the party, highlighting the choice between staying true to their roots or veering towards a different path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2023676,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2023675","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}