Former Vice President Mike Pence will quickly launch an official 2024 marketing campaign for president, modeling himself after the late President Ronald Reagan, Pence associates informed The New York Occasions in a narrative revealed Monday.
Pence will market himself as a “Reagan conservative” main the Republican Social gathering again to pre-Trump days, folks near Pence informed the newspaper.
“His crew’s inconceivable guess is that a ‘Reagan coalition’ — composed of the Christian proper, fiscal conservatives and nationwide safety hawks — could be reassembled inside a celebration reworked by Mr. Trump,” the newspaper wrote.
On the identical time, the previous veep is staking out his floor as a novel choice in a GOP race presently dominated by the grievance-driven former President Donald Trump.
“This marketing campaign goes to reintroduce Mike Pence to the nation as his personal man, not as vp, however as a real financial, social and nationwide safety conservative — a Reagan conservative,” Scott Reed, co-chair of a brand new tremendous PAC for Pence, informed The Related Press.
Politico on Monday confirmed the launching of the PAC to again Pence via early main votes.
Pence, an extended shot within the 2024 race, beforehand stated he would resolve no later than June, however the PAC signifies an announcement might be sooner.
Pence’s alignment with Reagan ought to come as no shock. Final summer time he tweeted: “President Ronald Reagan’s beliefs impressed me to go away the occasion of my youth and grow to be a Republican like he did and it was an honor to take a seat down with the @ReaganInstitute Technique Group in Utah final week!”
Oddly, although, the previous vp as soon as stated of Trump: “He jogs my memory of Ronald Reagan.”
That was earlier than his and Trump’s ticket was elected to the White Home and properly earlier than Pence defied Trump and authorized the 2020 election of Joe Biden, which Trump baselessly claimed was rigged.
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