President Trump and his Advisers Didn’t Just ask me to Pause. Real Gays Talking!

Pence went on to say, “I’ve seen him starting to shy away from a commitment to the sanctity of human life. And this last week, his reversal on getting tough on China and supporting our administration’s efforts to force a sale of ByteDance’s TikTok.”

This is a far cry from Pence’s own words when he repeatedly rang the alarm bells about Trump’s character and the danger he poses to our republic. Given that Pence has already done the hard part — publicly breaking from Trump and speaking out against the former president — he needs to go further, hammering home his experience instead of watering down his message with policy differences.

Pence has repeatedly slammed Trump’s efforts to pressure him to wrongly block the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on January 6, 2021. (Trump has been charged with conspiracy and obstruction in the election interference case as a result of his efforts to remain in the White House following his 2020 loss. Trump, of course, denies wrongdoing.)

Trump also demanded I choose between him and the Constitution.” Pence continued, “I chose the Constitution, and I always will.”

Pence made the point even more bluntly in August, stating on Fox News that, “The American people deserve to know that President Trump and his advisers didn’t just ask me to pause. They asked me to reject votes … essentially to overturn the [2020] election.”

These comments offer far more compelling reasons to take a stand against Trump than the policy disagreements Pence listed on Friday.