What They’re Saying:
WALL STREET JOURNAL: THE REPUBLICAN TIME FOR CHOOSING
Republican voters face an important choice next year. It will determine both the fate of our party and the course of our nation. Will we be the party of conservatism, or will we follow the siren song of populism unmoored to conservative principles?
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FOX NEWS: MIKE PENCE SLAMS TRUMP AND HIS GOP ‘IMITATORS’ FOR LURCHING AWAY AGAINST POPULISM
Former Vice President Mike Pence argues that former President Donald Trump “and some of his imitators in the Republican primary” are walking away from core conservative values.
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THE HILL: PENCE WARNS AGAINST RISE OF POPULISM ‘UNMOORED TO CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES’
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday laid out the stakes in the 2024 GOP primary as a battle between populism and traditional conservatism.
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WASHINGTON POST: PENCE SHARPLY REBUKES TRUMP IN SPEECH AGAINST POPULISM
Former vice president Mike Pence on Wednesday delivered a sharp rebuke of his former governing partner’s guiding philosophy, arguing that Donald Trump — who maintains a commanding polling lead over other Republican White House hopefuls — no longer hews to conservatism and has instead adopted the tone of a populist.
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NBC NEWS: MIKE PENCE GOES AFTER TRUMP AND ‘IMITATORS’ FOR SHIFTING GOP FROM ITS ROOTS
Mike Pence made some of his sharpest criticisms yet of Donald Trump — and those he calls Trump’s “imitators” in the GOP primary — in a speech Wednesday about the battle between conservatism and populism in the Republican Party.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES: PENCE CALLS POPULISM A ‘ROAD TO RUIN’ FOR THE G.O.P.
Former Vice President Mike Pence devoted an entire speech on Wednesday to what he called a “fundamental” and “unbridgeable” divide within the Republican Party — the split between Reaganite conservatives like himself and propagators of populism like former President Donald J. Trump and his imitators.
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From Mike Pence:
Today, our conservative beliefs and values are under attack like never before. Radical Democrats have worked to undermine our Constitution and use the power of government to pursue their own political goals.
But our conservative beliefs are also under attack from within our own party. Populists in our great party also push to erode our Constitutional values and use government power to silence critics and impose their will on opponents.
In these difficult times for many Americans, one thing remains crystal clear: It’s time for us to distinguish between those who seek to divide and deceive us versus those who aspire to lead with integrity, wisdom and a clear vision for the future of America.
Let me make this clear: This dangerous ideology is just progressivism with a fresh coat of paint.
It should be a warning for us all. If we don’t step up now and defend conservatism, we will lose our country for good.
I am proud to be the most conservative candidate running for president, and I WILL NOT STAND to allow populists in our party to substitute our faith in limited government, equality under the law, and individual liberty for an agenda stitched together by conspiracy theories, personal grievances, performative outrage, and divisive identity politics.
If we are going to defeat Joe Biden in 2024 and turn America around, the GOP must be the party of limited government, free enterprise, individual liberty, and responsibility, NOT the party of division, big government, and identity politics.
We must remain the conservative party.
If you agree, rush your support now, and together, we can reclaim the spirit of America’s founding principles and restore honor, truth, and unity to our party and our nation.