CNN spotted Jacob leaving a meeting room on Capitol Hill used by the committee to conduct witness interviews, and a source familiar with the matter confirmed he was scheduled to appear before the panel on Tuesday. Greg Jacob, a top aide to former vice president Mike Pence, met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot on Tuesday. deserved the chants on January 6 calling for his hanging. I’m not hearing good stories.” In case it was unclear exactly what Trump wanted out of the guy.Īlmost a year later after Pence certified Biden’s win, Trump told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that his former V.P. And if you’re not, I’m going to be very disappointed in you. I hope so,” and, “All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people,” and “Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn’t, that will be sad day for our country because you’re sworn to uphold our Constitution,” and finally, “Mike Pence, I hope you’re going to stand up for the good of our Constitution and for the good of our country. Later, at the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Capitol attack, Trump told the crowd, “I hope Mike is going to do the right thing. In the run-up to January 6, the ex-president tried various tactics to convince Pence to stop Biden’s win from going through, from reportedly calling the evangelical Christian a “pussy” to threatening to end their friendship. was in cahoots to deprive him of a second term, despite the fact that Pence…was on Trump’s 2020 ticket. Trump, of course, has been laying into Pence for over a year now, though this is the first time he’s (publicly) appeared to suggest that perhaps his V.P. If anything, Trump has only gone further off the deep end, ranting about the election having been stolen, a place of madness that led him, on Tuesday, to demand that his former vice president be investigated for refusing to stop the certification of Biden’s win. Even the reality that, on January 20, 2021, Joe Biden became president, and has been doing the job ever since, has failed to dissuade him. Nor has he been deterred by the fact that there continues to be not one shred of evidence that the 2020 election was plagued by voter fraud. However, that inconvenient fact obviously didn’t stop Trump from attempting to prevent Biden from moving into the White House, a campaign that included pressuring the Justice Department to investigate an insane claim that Italian satellites changed Trump ballots to Biden ones, exploring seizing voting machines, and inciting an insurrection that left five people dead. At that point, Trump hadn’t won anything because not all of the votes had been counted later, when they were, it was clear that Joe Biden had prevailed.
Frankly, we did win this election.” This, of course, was a bald-faced lie. We were getting ready to win this election. “This is an embarrassment to this country. “This is a fraud on the American public,” he declared in the wee hours of November 4, 2020, after his lead in various battleground states began to shrink. Following Trump's lead is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is in a clear second place, and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who has significantly less support than Trump or DeSantis but is still ahead of Pence.Īs of Wednesday, RealClearPolitics shows Pence with a 3.6-point polling average, Haley with 4.4, DeSantis with 22.4 and Trump with 53.2.Something you may have heard once or twice over the past 15 months is that Donald Trump thinks he won the last presidential election. Comparably, only 36 percent sided with Trump-findings that Quinnipiac Polling Analyst Tim Malloy called "a rare break in the GOP lockstep with Trump."īut while most voters agree with Pence on January 6, he still faces an uphill battle to beat out Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination.ĭespite the various scandals and controversies surrounding Trump, he remains the leading contender in the Republican field. Trump reacts to news Pence won't be charged for classified documentsĪ February 2022 poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that the majority of Republicans, 52 percent, agree that Pence had no ability to overturn the results of the 2020 election.Crowded GOP primary field is good news for Trump.Mike Pence's chances of beating Donald Trump, according to polls.
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