Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday forcefully denied a New York Times article suggesting that he is positioning himself to run for president in 2020 if President Donald Trump does not seek re-election.
“Today’s article in the New York Times is disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and our entire team,” Pence said in a statement.
The New York Times on Sunday reported that “multiple advisers” to the vice president have “intimated to party donors” that he might launch a presidential campaign if Trump does not run again.
“The allegations in this article are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this Administration,” Pence said.
He said his “entire team will continue to focus all our efforts to advance the President’s agenda and see him re-elected in 2020.”
“Any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd,” Pence said.
He’s waiting for the impeachment.
Ignore that super PAC that he’s been funding and the personal power base that Pence has been building. Forget all of those stops to key early Republican primary states that the Vice President has been making.
Pence knows that if Trump thinks that he is out to replace him, the President could very well knock him off of the ticket or even pressure him to resign from the vice presidency, which is why there was lots of sucking up to Trump in the statement.
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Given anyone in Trump’s administration’s relation with the truth, it sounds like a sure bet he’s running.
#Laughable And Absurd
You can’t blame a man for sticking with a winning formula.
He saw how it worked for Trump.
Trouble is, it’s not funny anymore.
Actually, just raising money from the rubes for his legal defense fund.