Former United States Vice President Michael Richard Pence (commonly known as Mike Pence) will announce his presidential candidacy next week in Des Moines, Iowa, according to information from CBS News.
Pence’s announcement could be through a video, and a speech, on June 7. The news portal NBC News was the first to report this information.
Information from CBS News indicates that Iowa is one of the priority states for Pence’s campaign, and it is expected that he will make an effort to obtain the vote of evangelical voters, a fundamental population segment in the entity and to which Pence has appealed for his identity. as an evangelical Christian.
In this way, Pence would enter the large field of candidates for the Republican Party (GOP) primaries, which includes former President Donald Trump; Florida Governor Ron DeSantis; former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley; Senator Tim Scott; among others.
According to a CBS News review, a political committee called “Committed to America” is already underway to raise funds and financially support Pence’s campaign, and is supported by Governors Brian Kemp, of Georgia, and Larry Hogan, former Governor from Maryland.
Mike Pence was born in Columbus, Indiana, on June 7, 1959. His political career was catapulted in the year 2000, when he was elected as a congressman to the United States House of Representatives at the age of 40, after a fruitful career. in the media.
His political interest, according to the Trump White House portal, has been to make the government smaller and more efficient, reduce public spending and empower state and local governments.
In 2013, he became the 50th governor of Indiana, and just three years later, he was sworn in as executive vice president by then-President Donald Trump.
However, the events of January 6, 2021, when the assault on the United States Capitol occurred, caused Pence and Trump to separate and cut off their political relationship, since Pence did not support the incident that day.
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