Former Vice President Mike Pence is expected to announce a presidential bid soon - and is already working to change up his image, according to the New York Times.
The Times reported Pence wants to re-brand himself as a 'Reagan conservative' to distance himself from his former boss, Donald Trump.
This comes from the co-chair of a Pence super PAC, who says the campaign will "reintroduce Mike Pence to the country as his own man."
“His team’s improbable bet is that a ‘Reagan coalition’ — composed of the Christian right, fiscal conservatives and national security hawks — can be reassembled within a party transformed by Mr. Trump,” the Times wrote.
Trump has taken aim at Pence numerous times since his former vice president refused on Jan. 6 to follow's Trump's demands to install himself as president despite losing to challenger Joe Biden.
Before he was vice president, Pence was a congressmen from Indiana who billed himself as a 'Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.' He was the 50th governor of Indiana.
Pence has said he will decide before June whether he's running for president, although insiders say the SuperPac signals an announcement may come sooner.
"Mr. Pence finds himself in the highly unusual position of being a former vice president trying to squeeze back into the national conversation. The political profile he built under former President Donald J. Trump was more supplicant than standard-bearer, at least until the rupture in their relationship on Jan. 6, 2021. He would begin far behind Mr. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida in early national and state polls of 2024 Republican primary voters," the Times wrote.
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