IOWA (United States) — Former Vice President Mike Mr Pence, who loyally served Donald Mr Trump for four years, on Wednesday (June 7) blasted his former boss for the 2021 attack on the US Capitol as he launched his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Mr Pence issued his most forceful condemnation to date of Mr Trump's role in the attack on Jan 6, 2021, when the then-president's supporters stormed the US Congress to try to stop lawmakers from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's election victory.
They view it as politically toxic, fearful that condemning the attack and Mr Trump's part in it will alienate Mr Trump's supporters and other Republican primary voters. Mr Trump is currently the front-runner in the Republican race. It is extremely rare for a vice president to run against a president he served under, and it has happened just a handful of times in US history. Mr Pence enters the Republican primary with a mountain to climb, polling at just 5 per cent and trailing Mr Trump by 44 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll in May.
"The American people deserve to know that on that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. Now voters will be faced with the same choice. I chose the Constitution and I always will," he said.
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