former vice president Mike Pence said the former president Donald Trump must decide for himself whether to withdraw from the presidential race in elections 2024 if you are charged.
Pence chose not to ask Trump to leave if charges were brought against him when the former vice president was visiting New Hampshire and being questioned about it, Politico reported on Thursday.
“Look, this is a free country. Everyone can make their own decisions,” Pence said during a short break with reporters Wednesday after attending a Cheshire County Republican Committee banquet in New Hampshire.
Pence’s comments came as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appeared close to filing criminal charges against Trump over silence payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen paid off Daniels in exchange for her silence about an affair she had with Trump. Trump later refunded Cohen’s payment, and the Trump Organization declared him legal costs.
Pence recently criticized Trump for the actions he took after the 2020 election that led to the storming of the Capitol in 2021, during a dinner at the Gridiron in Washington, D.C., when he said history would hold Trump accountable.
Trump responded to Pence’s statement while traveling to a campaign event in Iowa on Monday, saying that Pence himself was responsible for what happened during the attack on the Capitol.
But Pence responded to Trump on Thursday in New Hampshire.
“I know our former president said he had the right to cancel the election, but Donald Trump is wrong,” Pence said. “He had no right to annul the elections. The presidency belongs to the American people, and only to the American people.”
Early opinion polls in the race for the Republican nomination show Trump as the favorite.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is in second place, with all other Republicans who have declared their aspirations to run for the Republican nomination for president or indicated they intend to do so falling far behind.
Source: La Opinion
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