Chicago – Former Vice President Mike Pence said Monday he would not allow Democrats to use Jan. 6 to “divert attention from their failed agenda” and praised former President Trump’s history, but showed that His decision on whether the White House will run in 2024 will not be affected by Trump’s re-election plans. In an interview with Fox News Digital on the sidelines of a talk on economic policy at the University Club in Chicago, Pence reflected on the current state of the nation under the Biden administration, telling Fox News that President Biden “embraces its policy.” radical left “. TRUMP EXTRACTS JAN. 6 COMMISSION, MIKE PENCE IN SPEECHING IN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN GROUPS “At a time when inflation has been high for 40 years, petrol prices have more than doubled since we came to power, a crisis on our southern borders, a war in Eastern Europe, a catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, maybe it just comes from “I’m going back to Indiana for life, but, these are the things I’m focusing on, and honestly, these are the things people are talking to me about,” Pence said. “The issues that concern the American people, as is often the case, are not the ones that Washington is focusing on.” Capitol Police Riot 6 January (AP Photo / Evan Vucci) Lawmakers in the House committee on Jan. 6 are investigating the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, and claim that Trump’s insistence that the 2020 election stole sparked violence as Congress convened to certify the Electoral College vote. The commission is holding a series of public hearings in a bid to get Americans’ attention ahead of the November midterm elections. “January 6 was a tragic day and I know we did our job, but I will always be proud of our record,” Pence told Fox News. “And I will not allow Democrats to use that tragic day to divert attention from their failed agenda or to underestimate the intentions of the 74 million Americans who have rallied behind our cause.” First Lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Karen Pence greet supporters at a rally where Trump officially announced his candidacy for re-election in 2020 on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in Orlando (AP). Photo / John Raoux)
Pence told Fox News that after the 2020 election, he “had concerns about election irregularities.” “I was hoping that the courts – including the Supreme Court – would have taken into account and considered the fact that some states had changed the rules governing elections,” Pence said. “But, in the end, the courts passed and the electorate upheld the result and I knew my oath was clear.” Pence said that “by the grace of God”, he knows that he did “his duty that day, according to the Constitution”. “The Bible says ‘he keeps his oath even when it hurts,’” Pence said. “I know what that means.” As for his relationship with Trump during the administration, Pence told Fox News: “We were very close friends.” “We broke up very friendly on January 20,” Pence said. “I do not know if the president and I will ever see my duties on January 6, but in the aftermath of that tragic day, we sat down and discussed it. we rolled up our sleeves and completed the last weeks of our administration working together. “And we broke up very friendly. And we talked in the months that followed our departure – we talked with some regularity,” Pence continued. “And now, I think we’ve come a long way in the last year, but I’ll always be proud of the record we created.” Pence added: “We offered for the American people.” PENCE SAYS “HOLY LIFE” WILL CAUSE “RENEWED ENTHUSIASM” FOR DEMOCRATS AT NOON Praising the former president, Pence said he “will always be proud” of serving alongside him. “To serve next to a president who literally got up every day and worked in the midst of an avalanche of hostile media, and all the Russian prank hanging over our government – never stopped fighting every day to deliver on our promises. “Give it to the American people,” Pence said. Donald Trump and Mike Pence pose together. (Getty Images) Pence said the Trump administration was “handing over national security, border security, the economy, wages and income and directing investment in the country and conservatives to our courts.” “I’m really incredibly proud of that,” Pence said. “Wherever the Lord leads our family in the coming months and years, I will always be proud to have served in an administration that has kept our promises to the American people.” Asked about his own presidential ambitions for 2024, Pence told Fox News that he “is not really a long-term designer”. “I think whatever success we had, it was focusing on the job ahead of us, focusing on the job ahead of us and then, opportunities came,” Pence said. “First things first – we must win the midterm elections, we must elect and re-elect Republican governors across the country – and I attach the same importance to these two things – the victory of Congress and the victory of the state legislatures are equally important. “ Pence said the Trump administration had made “extraordinary progress” in its first two years. “It was not just because we had Republican majorities in Parliament and the Senate – it was also because we had 31 Republican governors working with us every day to advance state-level policies that magnify what we did at the federal level. said Pence. But as to whether he will run for president, Pence said he was “moved by the encouragement we received across the country.” “Karen and I will do what we have always done — we will take time to pray about it, seek advice from trusted friends and counselors, and go where they are called,” she said. He added: “One thing I will tell you is that I will not let anyone else make this decision for me.” JAN. COMMISSION: THURSDAY HEARING SHOULD APPEAR TO TRUMP PRESSURE ON PENS TO OVERTURN THE VOTE VOTE Asked if his decision to run for president in 2024 depended on whether Trump would announce a re-election campaign and whether he would run with Trump on the ticket if asked, Pence said: “We will go where they call us and as I said, we will not let anyone make this decision for us.” Asked if he would support Trump in the event of his re-election in 2024, Pence said: “We will win Congress in 2022, we will win the White House in 2024.” “My focus will be on doing the first thing first and then figuring out what role, if any, we have to play in the second job,” he told Fox News. Pence told Fox News that President Biden “embraces the politics of the radical left.” Pence delivered a speech on economics Monday at the University Club in Chicago, in which he said that the current state of the US economy “has been caused almost by himself by the 46th President of the United States.” CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION During the remarks, Pence said there had “never” been a “stronger separation between the president and the American people,” urging Biden to keep his oath and “put our families first and get America back on track.” a path to prosperity based on American principles and ideals. “ “What is destroying the American economy, what is weakening America at home and abroad, is not Joe Biden’s energy level, it is his agenda,” Pence told Fox News after his speech. “And in many ways the radical left is leading the policies of this government, but that is why I am absolutely determined to hold this government accountable, to travel the country … we make sure to elect women and men at every level of office to offer a positive “, a conservative alternative, and why I think it is absolutely necessary to win back the houses of the state, the house of the people and finally the White House.” Pence added: “Joe Biden has always been a liberal, but, in a very real sense, he has embraced the politics of the radical left that is crushing this life under this economy, stifling American energy, eroding American credibility on the world stage. and the only antidote to this is to elect majorities who love freedom in Congress and in the states across the country, and I believe we will. “ Brooke Singman is a political reporter for Fox News Digital. 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