“After careful consideration and prayer, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president,” he said afterward. Pence stated, among other things, that he “has no regrets” about his candidacy and stated that he knew in advance that it would be a difficult battle.
Pence, alongside Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, was one of the main candidates to compete with former President Donald Trump to become the official presidential candidate on behalf of the Republicans for the elections to be held at the end of next year.
The 64-year-old Pence was Donald Trump’s vice president from 2017 to 2021, who is also a candidate for the American presidential elections again. They were staunch allies during their joint term, but Pence angered Trump by confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Trump did not accept his defeat.
After the storming of the Capitol building in Washington in early 2021, Pence increasingly distanced himself from Trump. He said that by encouraging rioters who attacked the Capitol, Trump had put him and his family in danger.