Pence flatlines as 2024 field takes shape

[libertybele]

Pence flatlines as 2024 field takes shape

DES MOINES, Iowa — Mike Pence was met by a respectful, even warm, crowd in his first trip back to Iowa since the election. Republicans at a picnic in the northwestern corner of the state stood and clapped for him on Friday. In Des Moines later that afternoon, a ballroom full of Christian conservatives did the same.

He was “honorable,” a “man of faith,” attendees at the annual Family Leadership Summit said. Evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats called him “a very consistent conservative voice in Congress and then as governor, and then as vice president.”

What few people said they saw in Pence, however, was the Republican nominee for president in 2024.

Many Iowa Republicans had seen the results of the most recent Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, released just days earlier, in which Pence flatlined, drawing no more than 1 percent support. Before that, they’d watched the video of Pence getting heckled and called a “traitor” at a major gathering of conservatives in Florida last month.

“I don’t imagine he’d have a whole lot of support,” said Raymond Harre, vice chair of the GOP in eastern Iowa’s Scott County. “There are some Trump supporters who think he’s the Antichrist.”............

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/pence-flatlines-2024-499919

[christian]

Iowans tend to be courteous and polite, even to those unworthy of such.  They are trying to pretend that such good manners is proof of Pence having some viability.  I think not, having lived here all my life.

[libertybele]

The GOPe and Ronna are going to diligently push RINO's like Mittens and Pence even if it means changing rules at the convention at the last minute.

[Free Vulcan]

Pence is dead in Iowa, except maybe in the far northwest.