BREAKING: “A RECKONING!” Mike Pence delivers a STUNNING REBUKE to Trump, blaming his administration’s corruption controversies for the Republican midterm IMPLOSION.
Since he broke with Donald Trump after refusing to participate in the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, former Vice President Mike Pence has become one of the most prominent voices of the old-school, conservative wing of the Republican Party.
Now, with Republicans losing the House, the Senate and most of the nation’s governorships in the midterm elections, Pence is speaking out about why Trump’s MAGA wing of the party suffered such monumental losses. Not surprisingly, he has a radically different explanation for the catastrophic failure at the ballot box than the current Vice President JD Vance.
In his first interview since the midterms, Pence told Fox News that he cannot accept JD Vance’s explanation for the electoral disaster. The morning after Election Day, Vance posted: “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.”
While Pence acknowledged that the Iran war was a factor, he said that the war was only partially to blame. Vance ignored another major element for the Democratic rout: the Trump family’s bank accounts.
“I don’t think you can ignore the air of corruption that’s emerged around this administration, the self-dealing,” Pence said. “The American people saw a First Family seeing their wealth increase by more than $3 billion, including more than a billion dollars in cryptocurrency.”
Voters apparently agree with him. In the Fox News Voter Poll, 55% of respondents said government corruption was a “crucial” factor in their vote for Congress, and another 36% called it a major factor. That’s more than nine in ten voters treating corruption as a serious issue.
But Pence had a lot more to say about his party’s failures under his old running mate.
He also blamed Trump’s tariffs, his “policies of appeasement toward Russia,” and his handling of abortion medication. “I don’t think the American people turned left,” he said. “I think they were turned off.”
Asked directly whether Trump’s family profited improperly from the White House, Pence said he “wouldn’t have any way of knowing and wouldn’t care to speculate.” So, he’ll call out the corruption, but he won’t name the people who benefited from it.
That’s OK, Mike. We can figure it out.
His explanation of the Iran war deserves a hard look too. Pence says Americans weren’t upset that Trump started the war. He says they were upset that Trump “stopped short and didn’t finish it.” This is a war that has killed at least 19 Americans, wounded more than 820, sent gas prices toward record highs, and lasted about nine months after Trump promised it would take “a few weeks.” Pence’s answer is more war.
No thanks. And that stance isn’t likely to get Republicans back in office anytime soon.
It seems as if the debate inside the Republican Party is now Vance saying the war cost them, and Pence saying it wasn’t enough war. Neither of them is offering voters what they asked for.
The Trump camp hit back hard at the former member of their inner circle.
A Vance ally sneered that Pence “had to retreat into the think tank world” because of his “Bush-era neocon warmongering.” White House spokesman Davis Ingle said Pence’s “total and complete lack of courage caused untold damage to our great country” and mocked him for dropping out of the presidential race before Iowa.
Pence is the man who refused to overturn the 2020 election on January 6 while rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence.” Trump’s team calls that a lack of courage.
Pence is right about one thing: voters punished corruption at the ballot box. The rest of his diagnosis amounts to wanting the same party with a different coat of paint.
Democrats will soon hold the gavels. Their first job is to follow the corrupt money trail that Pence refuses to speculate about.
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