Once again , "Pence 2024" noise in media.
With increasing signs of
rifts within neocons camp and two major groups turning on each other, this could put forever wars lobbies poodles like Andrew Adlers of Atlanta AJT in tough spot:
The Memo: Could Pence run and win in 2024?
By Niall Stanage - 12/25/20 06:34 PM EST
ice President Pence is in the top class of 2024 GOP contenders as the Trump era nears its end.The firm expectation across the Republican Party is that Pence will be a candidate in 2024, unless Trump runs again.
A Pence candidacy would have clear assets. Pence has given loyal service to Trump throughout the last four years, even as his personal demeanor is many miles removed from the president’s.
Theoretically, that would enable Pence to hold onto the Trump base while having a more expansive appeal. Pence’s boosters believe that he could do better with the white, college-educated suburban voters who broke away from Trump, with electorally decisive effects, in November’s election.
But there are plenty of GOP doubters when it comes to Pence’s chances of prevailing, too.
The skeptics question each pillar of the pro-Pence argument.
They are dubious about his chance of bringing Trump voters to his side in a Republican primary, especially if other candidates are competing for that same swathe of voters.
Pence’s chances of holding “MAGA Country” against more colorful figures like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), are middling at best, they say.
Conversely, while Pence’s deep roots in the evangelical movement are an advantage in a Republican primary, his socially conservative strain of Christianity could limit his appeal to moderate voters.
It is questionable whether college-educated suburbanites will rally to a man with a deeply conservative view of LGBT issues and who famously refuses to dine alone with any woman other than his wife.
More broadly, there is the question of whether Pence really has the charisma and pizazz to mount a successful presidential bid of his own.
He won six terms as an Indiana congressman and served one term as the state’s governor. But his performance in that one statewide election, in 2012, was hardly spectacular. He won his race by 3 points on the same day GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried Indiana by almost 9 points.
“It’s going to be a jammed field and he hasn’t really wow-ed anyone. He hasn’t really distinguished himself,” said one GOP strategist who requested anonymity to candidly discuss Pence’s chances.
thehill.com/homenews/administration/531372-the-memo-could-pence-run-and-win-in-2024
