Trump wants to prevent Democrat Biden from winning the election by storming the Capitol. But his vice is against the defeated US President. After the defeat of the Republicans in the congressional elections, Pence once again clearly distanced himself from the defeated.
Former US Vice President Mike Pence, who is said to have ambitions for the executive chair in the White House, continues to distance himself from his former superior Donald Trump. Their relationship put a particular strain on Trump's behavior during his supporters' attack on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. Trump's statements at the time were dangerous, Pence said in an interview with ABC TV station. "It was clear he decided to be part of the problem."
Trump's supporters had stormed the Houses of Parliament while Pence presided over Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the November 2020 presidential election. Trump previously heated up the crowd at a rally near the White House by repeating his false allegations of voter fraud.
Trump had also claimed in the days before that Pence could simply reject election results from individual states - which legal experts and the Vice President saw differently. During the attack, Trump then tweeted that Pence "didn't have the guts to do what was supposed to be done." Calls were heard in the crowd for Pence to be hanged.
Pence was escorted to his motorcade by bodyguards but refused to leave the Capitol loading dock, he said in excerpts from his memoir in the Wall Street Journal. After the attack ended, Congress, under his chairmanship, completed the confirmation of Biden's victory. Unlike Trump, he also attended the new president's inauguration ceremony.
Trump is expected to announce a new presidential candidacy on Wednesday night. With a view to the 2024 election, Pence is considered a possible competitor for Trump, as is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Since the midterm elections, Republicans have been calling for Trump to be left behind. Trump was written off as the "biggest loser" in media mogul Rupert Murdoch's influential conservative media, such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
