The Lincoln Project on Thursday slammed Mike Pence in a newly released video that juxtaposes comments the former vice president made hours apart on Thursday over his complicated relationship with Donald Trump.
The ad starts out with video from Pence’s announcement that he’s running for president at Des Moines Area Community College in which he issued a strong rebuke of the former president.
Pence assails Trump over his pressuring him when he was vice president to overturn the results of the 2020 election that the former president falsely claimed was stolen.
“Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” Pence is shown saying in the video.
“And anyone who asked someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.”
But the video points out that, hours later, Pence was singing a different tune during his appearance at a CNN town hall in which he promised to “support the Republican nominee in 2024, especially if it’s me.”
Dana Bash, who hosted the town hall, asks Pence to square the apparent discrepancy between his promise to support the nominee in a race in which Trump is considered a prohibitive favorite with his suggestion earlier in the day that he should never be president.
“So then how can you say that you would support him if he’s the nominee?” Bash asks him.
“Well, because I don’t think Donald Trump is going to be the nominee,” Pence replies.
Asked by Bash, “but what if he is,” Pence says that “I have great confidence in the Republican primary voters, very confident that we’ll be able to support the Republican nominee for president of the United States, and I hope it’s me.”
The video ends with text that says: "Mike Pence knows, but he’ll never say."
"It’s America or Trump."
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