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RICHMOND, Va. -- Vice President Mike Pence will not be in Virginia this weekend to attend campaign events with Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie.

An aide for Vice President Pence told CNN the vice president wanted to open up his plans upon his return to the U.S. to give flexibility to his schedule.

He will be at Camp David on Friday.

On Tuesday, August 15, Americans for Prosperity invited media to the group's 11th annual Defending the American Dream Summit in Richmond on Saturday. The event was to feature Vice President Pence and Gillespie as keynote speakers, according to Americans for Prosperity spokesperson Gabrielle Braud.

This development occurred in the wake in the wake of Saturday's violent protests in Charlottesville. Protests that initially centered around Confederate monuments.

On Wednesday, Gillespie issued a statement on his thoughts about Confederate monuments in Virginia.

"I believe that decisions about historical statues are best made at the local level, but they should stay and be placed in historical context," he wrote. "These are legitimate differences, and I know Virginians are engaging in an ongoing, thoughtful conversation about these sensitive issues, one marked by respect and understanding."

Click here to read the full statement.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Governor Ralph Northam also released a statement on the matter.

"I support City of Charlottesville's decision to remove the Robert E. Lee statue. I believe these statutes should be taken down and moved into museums. As governor, I am going to be a vocal advocate for that approach and work with localities on this issue," he said. "We should also do more to elevate the parts of our history that have all too often been underrepresented. That means memorializing civil rights advocates like Barbara Johns and Oliver Hill, who helped move our Commonwealth closer towards equality."

Today, in response to the City of Charlottesvilles decision to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park, Dr. Ralph Northam released the following statement:

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Vice President Mike Pence extended his sympathies to those affected by the terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday and vowed the United States would help "find and punish" those responsible.

"The latest scenes of carnage and mayhem sicken us all. As the president said earlier today, the United States condemns this terror attack and we will do whatever is necessary to help," Pence said Thursday during remarks at the Panama Canal.

"Whatever inspired today's terror attack, the United States stands ready to assist the people of Spain and find and punish those responsible," he continued. "On this dark day, our prayers and the prayers of all the American people are with the victims, their families and the good people of Spain."

At least 13 people died and 80 were injured after a person drove a white van into pedestrians in the Las Ramblas district of Barcelona.

The area is a large, pedestrian tourist district with shops and stalls.

Videos and photos from the scene showed people lying on the ground in the area where the attack took place.

Local police released a photo of a man, identified as 28-year-old Driss Oukabir, who is believed to have rented the van used in the attack. Oukabir is from Morocco and resides in Ripoll, Spain.

After the attack, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump offered their well wishes to those in Barcelona.

"The United States condemns the terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, and will do whatever is necessary to help," Trump tweeted. "Be tough & strong, we love you!"

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Vice President Mike Pence, left, with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Metropolitan cathedral in Buenos Aires.. (photo credit:AFP PHOTO)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Vice President Mike Pence in Argentina commemorated Holocaust victims and those killed in terrorist attacks on Israelis and the Jewish community in 1992 and 1994.

On Tuesday, Pence paid homage to the victims at a memorial in Buenos Aires his first stop during an official visit to Argentina in the Metropolitan cathedral.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the 1992 bombing at the Israeli Embassy in the Argentine capital, which was followed two years later by the AMIA Jewish center bombing the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of Argentina. The two attacks, which Western intelligence agencies said were organized with Iranian support, claimed the lives of 114 people.

Earlier today, it was my great honor to visit a memorial to these victims in the Metropolitan chapel, and breathe a prayer and read a verse in their memory, Pence said.

The vice president landed Sunday in Latin America for a weeklong trip to meet with the leaders of Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Panama.

The threat of terror still looms across our hemisphere, Pence said, and we will stand together to confront it and protect our people from it.

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Vice President Mike Pence says he is standing by President Donald Trump in regards to the presidents contentious comments in a Tuesday press conference. Trump saidboth sides were to blame for the violence that ensued at a white nationalist-run rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend.

At a press conference on Tuesday, a reporter asked Pence three questions, all of which he effectively dodged. The first question was whether Pence agreed with Trump that there were good people among the white supremacist protesters, the second was whether Confederate statues should be removed, and the third was whether Robert E. Lee should be considered in the same pantheon as George Washington.

Pence took a beat and evaded all three questions entirely, saying:

What happened in Charlottesville was a tragedy and the president has been clear on this tragedy and so have I. I spoke at length about this heartbreaking situation on Sunday night in Colombia and I stand with the president and I stand by those words.

Pence also said that despite being in Chile, our hearts are in Charlottesville and paid tribute to the 32-year-old woman who was killed in the protests.

Just a few short hours ago, the family and friends gathered to say farewell to a remarkable young woman, Heather Heyer, he said.

Weve been praying, weve been praying for Gods comfort for her family and her friends and we are also praying in America, we will not allow the few to divide the many, he said. The strength of the United States of America is always strongest, as the President has said so eloquently, when we are united. Around our shared values and so it will always be.

Since his statements in Chile, Pence has canceled a planned appearance he had scheduled for Saturday with Ed Gillespie, who is currently the GOP nominee for governor of Virginia. Gillespie tweeted on Wednesday that the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who invaded [Charlottesville] espouse reprehensible views that have no redeeming value whatsoever.

Trumps comments during the Tuesday press conference, which was supposed to be about infrastructure, have united both Democrats and Republicans in saying the president needs to do more to fight against white supremacists. White supremacists, on the other hand, have praised his remarks.

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Jennifer Rubin dreams of Vice President Mike Pence as president to cure all ills and make the country sane again. She cites a CNN poll which states that 60 percent of respondents say the Russia probe is a serious matter. So even though President Donald Trump has been investigated for over a year now with absolutely no proof of collusion, people believe this might be the case. Could it be Rubin and the media pushing this narrative?

Say Rubin gets her wish. Does she really believe Trumps core supporters will just say, Oh well, Pence is still a Republican and better than a Democrat.

No, I suspect Trump loyalists will be offended enough to sit out the 2018 elections and give Democrats the U.S. House. Then watch as Democrats start impeachment proceedings on Pence. You see, to Democrats the only good Republican president is an impeached president.

Ken Nelson, Chicago

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