According to reports, former Vice President Mike Pence may announce his 2024 presidential campaign next Wednesday.
A source said Mr Pence, 63, would make the official announcement on June 7, just before his town hall with CNN in Des Moines, Iowa. NBC News.
There had been speculation for months that the former vice president was planning to join the already packed race for the White House.
When Mr Pence makes the announcement, he will be joined by his old boss, and former President, Donald Trump along with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and other GOP candidates.
According to sources, Mr Pence will spend the majority of his campaign in Iowa ahead of the caucuses, spending time in all 99 counties.
The former vice president will have a lot to explain to voters trying to re-elect Trump and Pence in 2020. Mr. Pence not only allowed the certification of the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021, but he condemned Mr. Trump’s action is creating a rift between the two.
Mr Pence served as vice president under Mr Trump from 2017 to 2021. He also served as the Governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017 as well as the Representative of Indiana from 2001 to 2013.
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