Former US vice president Mike Pence had been evasive on the subject of whether or not he will support his former boss Donald Trump if he is chosen as the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential race. Talking to CBS News, Pence said that he is sure there will be "better choices" for the 2024 presidential race.&nbsp;

“I’m very confident we’ll have better choices come 2024,” Pence said on Wednesday. “And I’m confident our standard-bearer will win the day in November of that year.”

Pence was widely speculated to run for Republican nominee for the 2024 elections, however, he is yet to make a decision. He told CBS that he will take a call on it "this spring".

The other Republican candidates&nbsp;running for presidential nomination include former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur and author. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to throw in the hat in the ring soon and is also expected to be the frontrunner in the presidential race.&nbsp;

This is not the first time that Pence has declined to talk of supporting Trump. In October last year, at a speech in Georgetown University in Washington, Pence had said &nbsp;"there might be somebody else I prefer more", when asked if he would support Trump in 2024.&nbsp;

Also Read |&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/there-might-be-somebody-else-i-prefer-more-over-trump-in-2024-pence-says-526953">'There might be somebody else I prefer more' over Trump in 2024, Pence says</a>

The reason Pence might be reluctant to support Trump boils down to the fact that either result might create chaos in the party. If Trump wins without majority support, there will be a divide in the party. If he loses, he is likely to refuse to support the winner, especially since he has refused to commit to supporting another candidate.

The Trump-Pence administration ended in chaos when Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol while Joe Biden was being confirmed as the next president. According to a testimony before the House January 6 committee, Trump attacked Pence and told aides Pence deserved to be hanged for refusing to block Biden's certification.&nbsp;

(With inputs from agencies)

Former US vice president Mike Pence had been evasive on the subject of whether or not he will support his former boss Donald Trump if he is chosen as the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential race.

Former US vice president Mike Pence had been evasive on the subject of whether or not he will support his former boss Donald Trump if he is chosen as the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential race. Talking to CBS News, Pence said that he is sure there will be "better choices" for the 2024 presidential race. “I’m very confident we’ll have better choices come 2024,” Pence said on Wednesday. “And I’m confident our standard-bearer will win the day in November of that year.” Pence was widely speculated to run for Republican nominee for the 2024 elections, however, he is yet to make a decision. He told CBS that he will take a call on it "this spring". The other Republican candidates running for presidential nomination include former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur and author. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to throw in the hat in the ring soon and is also expected to be the frontrunner in the presidential race. This is not the first time that Pence has declined to talk of supporting Trump. In October last year, at a speech in Georgetown University in Washington, Pence had said "there might be somebody else I prefer more", when asked if he would support Trump in 2024. Also Read | 'There might be somebody else I prefer more' over Trump in 2024, Pence says The reason Pence might be reluctant to support Trump boils down to the fact that either result might create chaos in the party. If Trump wins without majority support, there will be a divide in the party. If he loses, he is likely to refuse to support the winner, especially since he has refused to commit to supporting another candidate. The Trump-Pence administration ended in chaos when Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol while Joe Biden was being confirmed as the next president. According to a testimony before the House January 6 committee, Trump attacked Pence and told aides Pence deserved to be hanged for refusing to block Biden's certification. (With inputs from agencies)

Pence dodges query on whether or not he'll support Trump as 2024 nominee

Amid reports of former president Donald Trump set to contest the 2024 US elections, reports claimed he is not likely to enlist his former vice president Mike Pence for his ticket.

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Trump had openly hinted at a possible bid for the US presidency in four years at the Conservative Political Action Conference last Sunday.

According to US media reports, Trump's advisers want the former president to choose either a Black or a woman as his running mate. During the last days of the Trump administration, Pence had rejected calls to invoke the 25th Amendment process to remove Trump.

Pence would have been installed as "acting president" if he had invoked the 25 Amendment declaring Trump unfit to perform his duties. Reports had claimed that Trump and Pence hadn't spoken to each other during the Capitol riots, but met with each other few days later.

Trump had urged his supporters to march to the Capitol and had demanded Mike Pence to stop the process of certifying Joe Biden's victory in the November 3 elections as "Hang Pence" began trending on Twitter at the time.

Pence had released a statement in which he declined Trump's demand that he reject the electoral college vote even as Trump told a gathering of thousands of angry followers at the White House to march to the Capitol and "fight" for him.

As reports emerged that Trump's advisers were against Pence as a VP candidate, social media started buzzing with #Pence trending worldwide.

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Pence was forced to flee inside the US House in January after the mob stormed the Capitol building. Five people including a police officer had died in the violence.

Amid reports of former president Donald Trump set to contest the 2024 US elections, reports claimed he is not likely to enlist his former vice president Mike Pence for his ticket.

Amid reports of former president Donald Trump set to contest the 2024 US elections, reports claimed he is not likely to enlist his former vice president Mike Pence for his ticket. Watch: Trump had openly hinted at a possible bid for the US presidency in four years at the Conservative Political Action Conference last Sunday. According to US media reports, Trump's advisers want the former president to choose either a Black or a woman as his running mate. During the last days of the Trump administration, Pence had rejected calls to invoke the 25th Amendment process to remove Trump. Pence would have been installed as "acting president" if he had invoked the 25 Amendment declaring Trump unfit to perform his duties. Reports had claimed that Trump and Pence hadn't spoken to each other during the Capitol riots, but met with each other few days later. Trump had urged his supporters to march to the Capitol and had demanded Mike Pence to stop the process of certifying Joe Biden's victory in the November 3 elections as "Hang Pence" began trending on Twitter at the time. Pence had released a statement in which he declined Trump's demand that he reject the electoral college vote even as Trump told a gathering of thousands of angry followers at the White House to march to the Capitol and "fight" for him. As reports emerged that Trump's advisers were against Pence as a VP candidate, social media started buzzing with #Pence trending worldwide. Would you vote for Mike Pence in 2024? — Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) March 4, 2021 × . “Mike Pence” has signed on to the #BigLie even though it nearly made him -die. pic.twitter.com/PYCMBBVJMb — A.Silver—GIFS & Memes (@SilverAdie) March 3, 2021 × Mike Pence is the epitome of weakness. Feeble minded tiny thinker. Decrepit sycophant. An embarrassment to everything that America stands for. — ✨☮💙 Kim Ruxton 💙☮✨ (@KimRuxton) March 3, 2021 × Pence was forced to flee inside the US House in January after the mob stormed the Capitol building. Five people including a police officer had died in the violence.

Donald Trump may not have Pence as running mate: Report

For four years, Vice President Mike Pence has walked the Trump tight rope more successfully than anyone else in the president’s orbit, staying on his good side without having to echo his most incendiary rhetoric.

But in the final weeks of Pence’s term, his relationship with President Donald Trump is facing what may be the vice president’s toughest challenge yet.

Pence must now balance his loyalty to an enraged president making baseless claims of voter fraud against his own political future and reputation. He also has to deal with how Trump’s talk of running for president again in 2024 could leave him with no lane to run in. It also makes it difficult for Pence to even start raising money if the president is floating his own name.

So far, Pence appears to be handling the pressure much as he has over the past four years: appearing to be unflinchingly loyal while also steering clear of engaging in Trump’s pressure campaigns.

In the last few months of Pence’s time as vice president, his advisers want him focused on leading the coronavirus task force and helping the two Georgia Republicans facing runoffs that will determine whether the party maintains its Senate majority.

Those advisers said they would prefer that the vice president steer clear of the Trump campaign’s legal fights contesting the election results, and so far, Pence has been careful not to repeat Trump’s most baseless attacks on the electoral system while simultaneously remaining the good soldier.

In his brief remarks early Wednesday morning after election night — he kept them to 53 seconds — Pence tried to make what amounted to a non-endorsement of the president’s claim that the election was a “major fraud on our nation” into something that sounded like unquestioning support.

“As the votes continue to be counted, we’re going to remain vigilant, as the president said,” Pence told the crowd. “We’re going to protect the integrity of the vote.”

For almost a week afterward Pence was not seen or heard in public, though it was reported that he spent time with Trump in the Oval Office on Friday.

Then on Tuesday, he spoke to Republican senators at their weekly lunch, continuing his somewhat restrained tone while giving an update on where the campaign’s lawsuits stood and thanking senators for supporting Trump without making any demand that they fall in line, according to two people who attended the meeting.

Pence told the lawmakers he planned to travel to Georgia on Nov. 20 to campaign for Republican senators in the two runoff elections. He joked that he considered himself an honorary Iowan because of all the time he had spent campaigning for Sen. Joni Ernst, a seeming wink to his own presidential ambitions, which would most likely run through Iowa.

But in the same kind of nod to Trump’s claim for a second term that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the same day, he also told the lawmakers that he wanted to keep serving with them, as the president of the Senate, and that he thought he would.

In reality, Pence’s allies expect him to return to Indiana and make a living giving paid speeches and potentially writing a book. It will be the first time in a long time that Pence will live as a private citizen — he moved from the governor’s mansion in Indiana to temporary housing in Washington during the presidential transition four years ago to the Naval Observatory. He currently does not own a house.

But before he starts to think about what kind of house he will live in, and how to fill the years before the 2024 election cycle, he still has a role to play in the end of the 2020 election.

Pence has already faced an array of tests publicly and privately since Election Day, as he has had to calculate how far to go in supporting the president’s attempts to overturn the election.

In one of the most glaring examples, Corey Lewandowski, a Trump ally, pushed for Pence to travel to the Pennsylvania Convention Center last week to observe votes being counted, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The image of the vice president — who has strong support with the social-conservative wing of the Republican Party — descending on a counting center in a state where Trump’s campaign was making baseless claims of widespread fraud would have aided the president’s narrative that the election was being stolen. Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, vetoed the request, the person said.

The furthest he has gone, rhetorically, is lending his name to campaign fundraising emails that warn of “DEFENDING the Election from voter fraud.”

A campaign spokesman described his efforts on behalf of the president more effusively.

“Vice President Pence has been in constant contact with our team and extremely involved in the campaign’s legal efforts, doing everything we and the president have asked of him as well as leading efforts to raise money for the legal fund,” a Trump campaign spokeswoman, Ali Pardo, said in a statement.

But in his role as president of the Senate, Pence has a constitutionally designated role that could be a coda to Trump’s insistence that he won reelection — and awkward for the loyal vice president.

The Constitution calls on the vice president to oversee a joint session of Congress, to be held this time on Jan. 6, in which the votes from the Electoral College are officially counted. Typically, vice presidents simply read from a script and take no actions to interfere with the results.

In 2000, Vice President Al Gore had to certify the disputed election results after the Supreme Court effectively handed the presidential election to his opponent, George W. Bush.

“It was awkward and difficult for Vice President Al Gore in 2000, but that was his job,” recalled Michael Feldman, Gore’s former chief of staff. “The vice president has very few jobs as prescribed by the Constitution. Presiding over that process as president of the Senate is one of them.”

For Pence, the day he will have to announce Trump’s defeat is two months away. In the meantime, he has resumed more traditional duties of the job, appearing with the president on Wednesday at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. And he postponed a family vacation to Florida, opting instead for a speaking engagement on Friday.

For four years, Vice President Mike Pence has walked the Trump tight rope more successfully than anyone else in the president’s orbit, staying on his good side without having to echo his most incendiary rhetoric.

For four years, Vice President Mike Pence has walked the Trump tight rope more successfully than anyone else in the president’s orbit, staying on his good side without having to echo his most incendiary rhetoric. But in the final weeks of Pence’s term, his relationship with President Donald Trump is facing what may be the vice president’s toughest challenge yet. Pence must now balance his loyalty to an enraged president making baseless claims of voter fraud against his own political future and reputation. He also has to deal with how Trump’s talk of running for president again in 2024 could leave him with no lane to run in. It also makes it difficult for Pence to even start raising money if the president is floating his own name. So far, Pence appears to be handling the pressure much as he has over the past four years: appearing to be unflinchingly loyal while also steering clear of engaging in Trump’s pressure campaigns. In the last few months of Pence’s time as vice president, his advisers want him focused on leading the coronavirus task force and helping the two Georgia Republicans facing runoffs that will determine whether the party maintains its Senate majority. Those advisers said they would prefer that the vice president steer clear of the Trump campaign’s legal fights contesting the election results, and so far, Pence has been careful not to repeat Trump’s most baseless attacks on the electoral system while simultaneously remaining the good soldier. In his brief remarks early Wednesday morning after election night — he kept them to 53 seconds — Pence tried to make what amounted to a non-endorsement of the president’s claim that the election was a “major fraud on our nation” into something that sounded like unquestioning support. “As the votes continue to be counted, we’re going to remain vigilant, as the president said,” Pence told the crowd. “We’re going to protect the integrity of the vote.” For almost a week afterward Pence was not seen or heard in public, though it was reported that he spent time with Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. Then on Tuesday, he spoke to Republican senators at their weekly lunch, continuing his somewhat restrained tone while giving an update on where the campaign’s lawsuits stood and thanking senators for supporting Trump without making any demand that they fall in line, according to two people who attended the meeting. Pence told the lawmakers he planned to travel to Georgia on Nov. 20 to campaign for Republican senators in the two runoff elections. He joked that he considered himself an honorary Iowan because of all the time he had spent campaigning for Sen. Joni Ernst, a seeming wink to his own presidential ambitions, which would most likely run through Iowa. But in the same kind of nod to Trump’s claim for a second term that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the same day, he also told the lawmakers that he wanted to keep serving with them, as the president of the Senate, and that he thought he would. In reality, Pence’s allies expect him to return to Indiana and make a living giving paid speeches and potentially writing a book. It will be the first time in a long time that Pence will live as a private citizen — he moved from the governor’s mansion in Indiana to temporary housing in Washington during the presidential transition four years ago to the Naval Observatory. He currently does not own a house. But before he starts to think about what kind of house he will live in, and how to fill the years before the 2024 election cycle, he still has a role to play in the end of the 2020 election. Pence has already faced an array of tests publicly and privately since Election Day, as he has had to calculate how far to go in supporting the president’s attempts to overturn the election. In one of the most glaring examples, Corey Lewandowski, a Trump ally, pushed for Pence to travel to the Pennsylvania Convention Center last week to observe votes being counted, according to a person familiar with the matter. The image of the vice president — who has strong support with the social-conservative wing of the Republican Party — descending on a counting center in a state where Trump’s campaign was making baseless claims of widespread fraud would have aided the president’s narrative that the election was being stolen. Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, vetoed the request, the person said. The furthest he has gone, rhetorically, is lending his name to campaign fundraising emails that warn of “DEFENDING the Election from voter fraud.” A campaign spokesman described his efforts on behalf of the president more effusively. “Vice President Pence has been in constant contact with our team and extremely involved in the campaign’s legal efforts, doing everything we and the president have asked of him as well as leading efforts to raise money for the legal fund,” a Trump campaign spokeswoman, Ali Pardo, said in a statement. But in his role as president of the Senate, Pence has a constitutionally designated role that could be a coda to Trump’s insistence that he won reelection — and awkward for the loyal vice president. The Constitution calls on the vice president to oversee a joint session of Congress, to be held this time on Jan. 6, in which the votes from the Electoral College are officially counted. Typically, vice presidents simply read from a script and take no actions to interfere with the results. In 2000, Vice President Al Gore had to certify the disputed election results after the Supreme Court effectively handed the presidential election to his opponent, George W. Bush. “It was awkward and difficult for Vice President Al Gore in 2000, but that was his job,” recalled Michael Feldman, Gore’s former chief of staff. “The vice president has very few jobs as prescribed by the Constitution. Presiding over that process as president of the Senate is one of them.” For Pence, the day he will have to announce Trump’s defeat is two months away. In the meantime, he has resumed more traditional duties of the job, appearing with the president on Wednesday at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. And he postponed a family vacation to Florida, opting instead for a speaking engagement on Friday.

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