Former Vice President of the United States Mike Pence announced this Saturday that he is withdrawing his candidacy in the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential elections.
“This is not my time,” Pence said during his speech at the Republican Jewish Convention in Las Vegas, in which he promised to continue defending conservative values ??and the Constitution.
Pence’s announcement caught those attending this event by surprise, in which all the Republican candidates are participating and which will be closed by the former president and favorite in the polls, Donald Trump.
Whoever was Trump’s vice president surprised everyone when he interrupted his words of support for Israel to make his “personal” announcement. “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for President effective today,” he said.
He explained that when he ran in the primaries he did so because he thought that this country has “many problems,” and because he was raised to believe that “to whom much is given, much will be required with everything our country faces.”
But he also added that “the Bible” says that “there is a time for every purpose under heaven” and after six months of campaigning traveling around the country he has realized that it is not his time.
“We always knew this would be an uphill battle. But I have no regrets,” said Pence, who considered that it would have been worse not to try.
On the other hand, Pence promised that he will never stop “fighting to get Republicans elected.”
