Posted on 08/05/2022 1:44:37 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
p>“Former Vice President Mike Pence’s national security adviser said he would back former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 Republican presidential matchup over his former boss,” the Washington Examiner reported.
In an interview with the outlet, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg described a disappointing breach between the teams that played out Tuesday in dueling appearances in Washington.
While Kellogg talks to Pence occasionally, he said his loyalties lie with Trump.
Pence has floated a potential 2024 presidential campaign, but the former vice president has polled dramatically behind Trump.
“Pence spoke to a conference of young conservatives in downtown Washington on Tuesday morning, hours before Trump was set to deliver remarks of his own,” the Washington Examiner added.
Former Vice President Mike Pence's national security adviser said he would back former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 Republican presidential matchup over his former boss https://t.co/BhR2SysyWv
— 💮Sapere Aude💮 (@JustTruthSleuth) August 5, 2022
Pence national security adviser endorses Trump, blames advisers for split | Washington Examiner https://t.co/5YijuOcFiV
— Donn Vahratian (@DonnVahratian) August 5, 2022
Kellogg said he would back President Trump should he choose to enter the race.
“Sometimes, you have to pick the lane you’re gonna run with,” Kellogg said during the interview.
“I’ve always been a Trump guy.”
From the Washington Examiner:
Trump is weighing a possible announcement ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, stoking the prospect of a broad Republican field of presidential candidates facing off against one another in 2024.
The former president addressed the America First Policy Institute conference in downtown Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, organized by the think tank where Kellogg is a top adviser. Trump’s appearance marks his first time returning to the capital since leaving office and follows testimony by a top Pence adviser to a Jan. 6 grand jury.
The divides between the Trump and Pence camps have drawn new scrutiny in the wake of the Jan. 6 hearings.
Earlier Tuesday, Pence addressed a room of young conservatives across town, urging the group to look toward the future.
“In order to win, conservatives need to do more than criticize and complain,” Pence said in prepared remarks. “We must unite our movement behind a bold, optimistic agenda that offers a clear and compelling choice to the American people.”
Further stoking speculation about Pence’s political ambitions is his forthcoming memoir, which will be published days after the midterm elections on Nov. 15.
The book will chronicle “Trump’s severing of their relationship,” according to an announcement Tuesday by publisher Simon and Schuster.
Kellogg said the divide between the two leaders was disappointing but didn’t have to be this way.
“We tried to bring him in tight,” Kellogg said of Pence. “It’s not because we haven’t reached out to him.”
He suggested those around Pence had stoked the conflict.
Pence’s advisers, “like Marc Short,” Kellogg said, had “pulled away from the Trump team.”
Trump barred Short from the White House on Jan. 6, blaming him for advice he gave Pence on certifying the results of the 2020 election, which the president had urged his vice president to challenge.
A senior adviser to Pence, Short was with the vice president at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and has emerged as a central character in the investigation by Congress.
Keith Kellogg knows who the winning side is.
Just getting ready for a possible position in the 2nd term of Trump.
Pence is okay, but Trump is a lot better and most likely to succeed.
Trump should wait until after the 2022 midterms but I can see how he might not resist making 2022 about him and not Joe
Gee Mike didn’t you pay any attention?
President Trump not only had the visions he made them happen
And we were ALL BETTER for it
Agree 100%.
I think he will wait to announce until after. My thoughts are he’s trying to set up a loyalist segment in the house and senate as much as possible. What’s the point of running again if we get Paul Ryan II mucking up everything.
“Pence is okay”
...you’ve been watching The View too often
Pence is okay,
No he’s NOT okay.........he’s a hypocrite and a snake!!!!!
Trump will announce 15 seconds after the last results in the midterm are announced.
Kellogg is a really good man.
Sorry, Judas Pen(i)se doesnt get to dodge responsibility for his own decisions and actions and pawn it off on someone else.
That’s just pathetic and embarrassing.
And weasely.
And scumbagerly.
Pence, you are a NeoCon.We hate NeoCons. Have a great retirement.
Good on Kellogg for telling it like it is.
Many of his staff probably worked for Willard in 2012 ...
It is obvious the attention span and historical literacy of most professing “liberty loving” Americans is near worthless.
Pence is not a principled conservative, and has proven he is willing to use conservatives for his little empire building efforts.
- The Indiana House and Senate voted to protect traditional marriage, and Governor Pence vetoed it outright.
- Pence was totally involved in the leftist IC/DOJ/FBI plot to get General Flynn fired from the White House, and then put in prison, to try and force Flynn to coerce false statements which could be used to fraudulently and treasonously impeach President Trump, which would have resulted in Pence being President.
- Pence was involved in multiple discussions on wrongly using 25-A to get rid Trump.
- As he very cunningly wrapped himself around his fake religiosity, fooling most, Pence was able to remain the dominant figure in Trump White House recruitments for all levels and positions. Mlm ostnof those spied on and routinely stabbed Trump in the back.
- Pence either lied (and was involved with the JAN 6 plot against Trump voters and liberty loving Americans, or ignored actual Constitutionally lawful provision of revalidation of state elections.
Trump trusted Pence, but Pence was a RINO, and a real Judas figure. 🇺🇸
Well, that’s got to smart! LOL!
Pence was trusted with the Covid response. Birx and Fauci’s lying and shutting down churches and restaurants. No loyalty there, just a snake in the bushes.
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