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<p>When directly asked on Sunday whether he considers himself a “MAGA Republican,” former vice president Mike Pence dodged his way out of answering. </p>
<p>Instead, he told NBC’s Chuck Todd, “I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican in that order.”</p>
<p>Pence, who is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, has attempted to carefully thread the needle between bashing his former boss—<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goes-after-pence-on-truth-social-he-wants-to-show-hes-a-tough-guy">facing attacks from Trump</a> and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-pence-repeatedly-heckled-at-iowa-state-fair-traitor">his surrogates</a> over Pence’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-pence-was-a-jan-6-hero-but-hes-still-a-big-lie-coward">refusal to play along</a> with unconstitutional attempts to overturn the 2020 election—and courting the hardcore pro-Trump base of the Republican Party. </p>
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When directly asked on Sunday whether he considers himself a “MAGA Republican,” former vice president Mike Pence dodged his way out of answering.
Instead, he told NBC’s Chuck Todd, “I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican in that order.”
Pence, who is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, has attempted to carefully thread the needle between bashing his former boss—facing attacks from Trump and his surrogates over Pence’s refusal to play along with unconstitutional attempts to overturn the 2020 election—and courting the hardcore pro-Trump base of the Republican Party.
