About 1 in 3 potential Republican primary voters views Pence unfavorably. In a survey of registered voters nationwide, the same share says they would never vote for him. In Iowa, Pence is put on the spot over Jan. 6:
President of the United States from 2017 to 2021It was midway through a three-day swing of Iowa for Mike Pence when Luann Bertrand confronted him at a Pizza Ranch.
Do you ever second-guess yourself? That was a constitutional right that you had to send those votes back to the states. It was not like you were going to personally elect him. We all know by the number of votes that were there who won that election. You changed history for this country,” she said.
“I don’t think the moment was lost on him that the answer that he gave was going to be one that was kind of the answer of record and would be given a lot of attention,” O’Malley said. Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader, the group sponsoring the summit, said Pence did the right thing by tackling Jan. 6 head-on in Sioux City, though there are many voters he might never bring around.
David Oman, a longtime center-right Republican strategist in Iowa who is unaffiliated with a campaign, said it was unclear whether Pence’s rebuttal of the voter — and his swipe at Trump — would help in the caucuses, which are Jan. 15, 2024.“My personal view is, history will be good to Mike Pence with respect to what happened on Jan. 6. Someday he’ll get the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Probably from a Democratic president.
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