Pence’s team views the early-voting state of Iowa as vital to his chances of securing the nomination. Chris Christie, a onetime Trump ally who helped him prepare for the 2020 presidential debates, announced his candidacy Tuesday with a sharp anti-Trump message. Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations, is the other former member of the Trump administration running against the former president. Pence – who’s been polling in the single digits – joins a growing field of Republican hopefuls, which so far has been dominated by Trump and Florida Gov. “This kind of action by the Department of Justice I think would only fuel further division in the country,” Pence told CNN’s Dana Bash, before adding later, “I hope the DOJ thinks better of it and resolves these issues without an indictment.”ĬNN reported Wednesday that the DOJ recently informed Trump’s legal team that the former president is a target in the special counsel investigation into his possible mishandling of classified documents, according to sources familiar with the matter, a sign that prosecutors may be moving closer to indicting him. And anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again,” the former vice president said of his onetime boss, currently the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination.Īt a CNN town hall later in the day in Des Moines, Pence repeated his criticism of his former boss, but on the subject of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, he said it would “be terribly divisive to the country” if the former president were to be indicted by federal investigators over his actions and a possible obstruction of justice. “I believe that anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States. What to watch for in CNN's town hall with Mike Pence Former Vice President Mike Pence gives remarks at the Calvin Coolidge Foundation's conference at the Library of Congress on Februin Washington, DC.
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