Trump rules out Pence as VP in potential 2024 presidential bid

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Former President Donald Trump has yet to announce whether he’ll run for president in 2024. But if he does, Trump said Mike Pence won’t rejoin him on the GOP ticket. Trump told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday night that “I don’t think the people would accept” Pence as the former president’s running mate if he were to run for and win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Pence spent his tenure in the Trump administration as one of the then-president’s most loyal and ardent defenders, refusing to break with Trump amid even the fiercest political firestorms. But the Trump-Pence relationship reached its breaking point in the run-up to and aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, when Trump demanded that Pence use his ceremonial authority presiding over the counting of electoral votes to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Pence refused to do so — maintaining he had no such authority — and worked with House and Senate parliamentarians to close off any procedural windows for Trump allies in Congress to carry out the then-president’s wishes. (Trump just did Pence a favor.)