Donald Trump and Mike Pence each pulled into in DC Tuesday — however they didn’t sit right down to reminisce about outdated occasions.
The two are seen as 2024 presidential rivals with Trump nonetheless beating all Republicans, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the one one inside putting distance. That’s at the least based on a latest ballot out of New Hampshire this summer season.
Trump returned to Washington for the primary time Tuesday since begrudgingly handing over the keys to the Oval Office to President Biden on Jan. 20, 2021. He spoke within the afternoon on the America First Agenda Summit.
“It was a catastrophe that election. A disgrace to our country,” Trump mentioned about 2020 based on the Associated Press. “We may just have to do it again.”
He was referring to the 2020 vote and his 2024 ambitions.
Pence addressed Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference within the morning the place he pitched forward to the following election.
“Some people may choose to focus on the past, but elections are about the future,” he mentioned, the New York Time reported, including that when he was requested about Trump he mentioned: “I don’t know that our movement is that divided — I don’t know that the president and I differ on issues, but we may differ on focus.”
Pollster John Zogby informed the Herald it’s too quickly to fee the GOP candidates, that can come this fall after the midterm elections.
“Trump has the highest name recognition and any poll now will simply be anti-Trump or that he’s winning and that’s all too early. We need to see what his impact will be come November,” mentioned the pollster. “In December and January we’ll have a real reading of where the GOP race stands.”
Their separate speeches come amid information that Pence’s former chief of employees, Marc Short, testified earlier than a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, the AP stories.
Short was on the Capitol that day as Pence fled an offended mob of rioters who referred to as for his hanging after Trump wrongly insisted Pence had the facility to overturn the election outcomes, the AP added.
A Real Clear Politics common of assorted nationwide polls reveals Trump would beat Biden 44.5% to 42.5% if the election have been held at this time.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”