Pence moved away from Trump after the riots and storming of Congress in 2021 (European archive)
Former US Vice President Donald Trump, Mike Pence, announced that he will not support Trump for a second term in the US presidential elections scheduled for next November.
Pence, who ended his 2024 presidential campaign amid unpromising opinion poll numbers, told Fox News on Friday, “It is not surprising that I will not support Donald Trump this year,” adding that Trump “is pursuing an agenda that conflicts with the conservative agenda under which we have governed during our four years.”
American media described Pence's announcement as "resounding" despite the fact that deep divisions have separated the two men since the end of Trump's term, in a way that would have made his support for the Republican billionaire surprising and not the other way around.
Last week, Trump won a sufficient number of delegates to win the Republican Party nomination, and will run again for the presidency against Democratic President Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential elections.
Disagreement prevailed between the two men after Trump tried to pressure Pence to help him overturn his defeat in the 2020 elections to Biden, and he repeatedly attacked him on social media when he did not implement the plan.
After several attempts by Trump and his allies to cancel the election results failed, the then president urged a crowd of his supporters to go to Congress headquarters, and they stormed the building on January 6, 2021, with some of them chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!”
Source: Agencies