Mike Pence has a resume most White House hopefuls would dream of. He was a vice president, governor and congressman. Normally, someone with such credentials would be well positioned to win their party’s presidential nomination. But not today.
Former Vice President Mike Pence announced he is dropping his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, becoming the first major candidate to leave the race. FILE - President Donald Trump listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Washington.
Pence spent much of his campaign advocating traditional conservative policies, including more U.S. support for Ukraine, even as those ideas have fallen out of favor in a Republican Party increasingly aligned with Trump’s populist and isolationist leanings. Then came a campaign finance report that showed just how dire the situation had become. Pence already racked up more than $600,000 in debt and was burning through nearly as much cash as he was raising, despite an aggressive fundraising schedule.
“He never got much traction,” said Larry Post, a retired money manager from Beverly Hills, California, who was among the Republican donors gathered in Las Vegas. Lawrence Platt, an OB/GYN from Los Angeles who was also attending the meeting of the influential Jewish group, said he was “not shocked but surprised,” when Pence announced he was ending his campaign.
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