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Mike Pence ended his campaign to become the presidential candidate

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By Evaristo Lara

28 Oct 2023, 3:27 PM EDT

Given the impossibility of meeting the threshold established by the Republican National Committee for candidates for candidacy for next year’s presidential elections, Mike Pence announced the end of his campaign.

During the meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition held in Las Vegas; Snowfall, The former vice president acknowledged that, after analyzing his situation with respect to the results of the latest polls, he considers it pertinent not to continue his fight to beat the current favorite, Donald Trump.

“After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today. “We always knew this would be an uphill battle, but I have no regrets,” he expressed.

Although his intention was to continue trying to convince citizens with his proposal for a nation, the experienced Indiana politician He was forced to accept that, with the third debate organized by the CNR approaching, the number of donors he had to gather was insufficient, nor was his average popularity in the polls.

According to his most recent campaign presentation, the Republican who spent two years waiting for the possibility of running for the White House, He only managed to raise $1.18 million dollars in the bank and $621 thousand dollars in debt.

Mike Pence ended up being more positioned for having turned his back on Donald Trump than for being an alternative option to govern the country. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

It should be noted that Due to the comments made by Donald Trump where he described Pence as a guy who turned his back on him, some data provided by recent polls warn that a percentage of Republican citizens called him a traitor and they stopped seeing it as an option on the ballot.

In fact, an opinion study conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Public Affairs Research Center showed that 57% of American adults thought negatively of Pence, and only 28% had a favorable opinion of his campaign.

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