Pence's early exit from the presidential campaign offers a reminder of Trump's grip on the GOP
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October 30, 2023
DAMON WINTER, New York Times
Mike Pence looks on as Donald Trump spoke at their election-might event, at a Hilton in midtown Manhattan on Nov. 8, 2016. Pence's decision to end his campaign more than two months before the first contest in the Republican primary underscores the extent to which the party has been subsumed by Trump and his lies about the 2020 election that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
LAS VEGAS - Mike Pence has a resume most White House hopefuls would dream of. A congressman. A governor of a big Midwestern state. A one-time vice president.
In normal times, someone with such credentials would be well-positioned to win their party's presidential nomination. But these are not normal times and Pence's decision to end his campaign more than two months before the first contest in the Republican primary underscores the extent to which the party has been subsumed by former President Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Pence made his surprise announcement Saturday in Las Vegas, where he and other GOP presidential hopefuls spoke at a summit sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition. But in many ways, Pence's campaign ended years before it officially began, in the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. That was when Trump, desperate to hang onto power, became convinced that Pence, as president of the Senate, could somehow reject the election results - a power the then-vice president did not possess.
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