Former Vice President Mike Pence’s newly released interview brought in close to 4 million viewers when it aired on Monday night. The former vice president touched on several topics, including Trump’s run for the White House in 2024 and his own possible campaign plans.
Pence shared during his sit down with ABC's “World News Tonight” that he doesn’t currently have plans to run in 2024, saying that “would be for others to say, and it’d be for us to decide whether or not we’d want to test that.”
If he does make the decision to test the waters and run for president, he said it would only come after he and his family give the notion “prayerful consideration.”
The former vice president’s interview aired just a day before Trump announced he would again run for the presidency in 2024, a move that some say is the earliest campaign announcement ever.
Many have already spoken out against Trump’s decision to announce his campaign this early, but Pence shared on Monday night that he doesn’t think he will go unchallenged.
“I think that’s up to the American people. But I think we’ll have better choices in the future. People in this country actually get along pretty well once you get out of politics,” Pence said. “And I think they want to see their national leaders start to reflect that same, that same compassion and generosity of spirit. And I think, so in the days ahead, I think there will be better choices.”
During the interview, Pence was also asked about his perspective on the Jan. 6, 2021 riots. When asked what was going through his mind as thousands of Trump supporters broke into the Capitol building, he said he “felt no fear. I was filled with indignation about what I saw.”
Testimony from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol found that the then-Vice President refused to leave the Capitol, fearing it would be a sign that rioters won. In the interview he shared why he chose not to go.
“They were walking us for the motorcade with the doors on our Suburban open on either side. And I saw that they had positioned vehicles on the ramp. And I just turned to my Secret Service lead and said, ‘I’m not getting in that car’ … I just assumed that if we got in the car and close those 200-pound doors that not my team in the loading dock, but that somebody maybe back at Secret Service headquarters would simply give the driver an order to go,” Pence said. “I just didn’t want those rioters to see the vice president’s motorcade speeding away from Capitol Hill. I didn’t want to give them that satisfaction.”
Pence didn’t hold back when talking about Trump’s actions either, saying that the then-president put him and his family in danger.
“I turned to my daughter who was standing nearby and said, 'It doesn't take courage to break the law, it takes courage to uphold the law,” Pence said. "I mean, the president's words were reckless. It was clear he decided to be part of the problem."
With Trump having announced he will again run for office in 2024, many have begun speculating about the challenges he will face both in his party and across the aisle.
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