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Former Vice President Mike Pence answered questions from New Hampshire voters Tuesday in a taping of "Conversation with the Candidate."Pence has not yet announced a run for president, but Granite State voters wanted to know if he does run, how he plans to get past the Republicans currently leading in polls that show him in single digits."I'm not a candidate right now. We'll keep you posted here in New Hampshire, I promise," Pence said. "But the fact that ever since I left office, there's always been a certain percentage of Republicans that have mentioned us for the highest office in the land is deeply humbling to me."Pence told voters he favors an all-of-the-above energy policy."We ought to encourage innovation, encourage energy diversification," he said. "But we shouldn't be making American families and American businesses pay a price that countries around the world are not paying."On the issue of abortion, Pence said he now backs national restrictions."The Supreme Court returned the question of abortion, which is a deeply, profoundly important issue in the heart of our nation, to the states and to the American people," Pence said. "If I'm ever called back into public service in our nation's capital, I'll also look for ways to advance the sanctity of life at the national level."Voters in the crowd said they found Pence to be more personable than they expected. "I think it's something you don't see like many candidates you don't see it from afar," said Patrick Connelly, of Chester. "He certainly knows how to work a room.""Conversation with the Candidate" can be seen on WMUR at 7 p.m. on Friday, followed by another half-hour on WMUR.com and the WMUR app.

Former Vice President Mike Pence answered questions from New Hampshire voters Tuesday in a taping of "Conversation with the Candidate."

Pence has not yet announced a run for president, but Granite State voters wanted to know if he does run, how he plans to get past the Republicans currently leading in polls that show him in single digits.

"I'm not a candidate right now. We'll keep you posted here in New Hampshire, I promise," Pence said. "But the fact that ever since I left office, there's always been a certain percentage of Republicans that have mentioned us for the highest office in the land is deeply humbling to me."

Pence told voters he favors an all-of-the-above energy policy.

"We ought to encourage innovation, encourage energy diversification," he said. "But we shouldn't be making American families and American businesses pay a price that countries around the world are not paying."

On the issue of abortion, Pence said he now backs national restrictions.

"The Supreme Court returned the question of abortion, which is a deeply, profoundly important issue in the heart of our nation, to the states and to the American people," Pence said. "If I'm ever called back into public service in our nation's capital, I'll also look for ways to advance the sanctity of life at the national level."

Voters in the crowd said they found Pence to be more personable than they expected.

"I think it's something you don't see like many candidates you don't see it from afar," said Patrick Connelly, of Chester. "He certainly knows how to work a room."

"Conversation with the Candidate" can be seen on WMUR at 7 p.m. on Friday, followed by another half-hour on WMUR.com and the WMUR app.

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DES MOINES, Iowa

Iowa US Senator Joni Ernst announced Monday former Vice President Mike Pence will be at her Roast and Ride event this June.

"The roast and ride is the one opportunity we have see them all (GOP candidates) on that center stage talking to those Iowa voters and like I said inspiring them to participate in the 2024 caucuses," Sen. Ernst said.

The annual event will be held June 3 and will consist of a motorcycle ride and a Roast and Ride rally.

Im excited to welcome Mike Pence to Roast and Ride this year! As a fellow motorcycle fan, Mike will also be joining me on my Ride to benefit Iowa's Freedom Foundation, said Joni Ernst. Even though Joe Biden and the national Democrats ditched Iowa, Republicans are maintaining our FIRST in the nation status. My annual Roast and Ride is THE event to be at in 2023! Its the perfect opportunity to engage directly with Iowans from all corners of the state.

Pence is the second special guest to be announced following former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

Wherever Joni Ernst asks me to be, I will be. As proud parents of a Marine pilot, Karen and I understand the importance of giving back to organizations like Cedar Rapids own Freedom Foundation, an incredible veterans support charity," said Vice President Mike Pence. "I am honored that Joni has once again asked me to join her annual Roast and Ride and look forward to being back with the people of Iowa soon!

Sen. Ernst said she has invited all 2024 GOP presidential candidates and hopefuls. In an interview Monday with Iowa's News Now, Sen. Ernst said she will be announcing other special guests in the next few days.

The Roast and Ride will likely be the first time Iowans will get to see most, if not all of the GOP candidates in the same place.

Sen. Ernst says this allows Iowans a chance to get to know the candidates, see how they interact with one another, and hear their political points of view.

With caucus season right around the corner, the event also gives candidates a chance to recruit and build their volunteer base in Iowa.

"It's not just a matter of winning votes but getting people that are going to be willing to volunteer for you and go out and try to encourage others in their precinct to vote for you too," Hagle said.

The annual event began in 2015 and since then, high profile GOP leaders have attended the event from Former President Donald Trump to former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad.

Each year, Sen. Ernst donates proceeds from the event to a Veterans organization. This year she has chosen the Freedom Foundation in Cedar Rapids.

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The former chief of staff to Mike Pence clapped back at Donald Trump newest snipes at his former vice president over January 6th.

As Trump used his town hall event with CNN to push more election denialism and praise his rioting supporters from January 6th, he faced questions about the mob of his supporters who wanted to Hang Mike Pence after the ex-veep refused Trumps unconstitutional demand to help him overthrow the 2020 election.

I dont think he was in any danger, Trump claimed to CNNs Kaitlan Collins, and he refused to give any apology to Pence because he did something wrong. He should have put the votes back to the slate legislators and I think we would have had a different outcome.

Trumps repeated justifications of the lynch mob are no surprise by now, but whatever his dismissals of the violence on January 6th, the fact remains Pence was only 40 feet away from the mob that was demanding his blood when his security staff evacuated him from the Capitol Building. To that point, CNN asked Marc Short for his thoughts about that, and the former Pence chief of staff ominously warned of what couldve happened if Pences escort had to open fire on the mob to protect him.

I was by the vice presidents side when the United States Secret Service three times asked him to evacuate the Capitol, and as you know, the vice president refused to leave because he said that thats not the image he wanted the world to see. The hallmark of democracy, where a vice president would have to flee that setting.What the president thinks is probably not consistent with what the United States Secret Service thought, which was by the vice presidents side at that time. And after conversations I had with the Secret Service they commented that, Look, we were just inches away from actually having to open fire on that crowd, which would have led to a massacre in the Capitol. And so, whether or not the vice president certainly was protected, but there could have been a lot of more carnage that day and I think we were very close to that.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence praised Rep. James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday for releasing financial records related to Hunter Biden-linked business deals in Romania and China.

Pence said he felt confident that Republican leaders in the House of Representatives would hold the Biden family accountable for alleged lies over accepting money from China and an alleged conflict of interest by having Hunter Biden sitting on the board of a foreign company.

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"When I was vice president of the United States, my son wasn't sitting on the board of a foreign corporation," Pence told Fox News host Sean Hannity. "I think the most jarring thing that came out in the hearing today is when congressman Comer revealed that back in 2020, when [President] Joe Biden said repeatedly that he and their family, their companies, had never received any money from China. Now, using the subpoena power of the Congress and going to bank records, they have found out that Chinese money flowed into [an] account controlled and owned by the Biden family."

Comer, who is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, released a 36-page memo on Wednesday that claimed bank records the committee subpoenaed show the Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received over $10 million from companies belonging to foreign nationals while Biden served as vice president under former President Barack Obama and after he left public office in early 2017.

The new memo does not link any of the payments directly to the president, but it does link them to multiple family members.

Pence said he could not "comprehend" the revelations about the payments but claimed there would be justice for the antics of the Biden family.

"The American people deserve answers, and I just am so proud of members of Congress for holding them accountable," Pence said. "This is why we have a separation of powers under the Constitution. And this is why the Congress has the authority they have, and they've got to get to the bottom of it. They've got to hold Joe Biden and his family accountable for the truth. The American people deserve no less."

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Pence's appearance on Fox occurred shortly after former President Donald Trump made his first appearance on CNN since his 2016 presidential campaign. During the town hall, Trump refused to apologize for slamming Pence in the aftermath of the 2020 election, maintaining that his former vice president "did something wrong."

The two former running mates have rarely appeared together since leaving the White House. Pence is considering a competing bid for the Republican nomination for president in 2024 against Trump, who has already announced his campaign. Pence is expected to make a final decision in June.

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Coup-attemptingformer President Donald Trump doubled down Wednesday on his lies about the 2020 election and his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol and claimed, again, that his vice president had done something wrong by not declaring Trump the winner of the election he had lost.

That was a rigged election, Trump lied, barely two minutes into a town hall hosted for him by CNN.

If you look at what happened in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, if you look at what happened in Detroit, Michigan, if you look at what happened in Atlanta, millions of votes, and all you have to do is take a look at government cameras, Trump said, repeating yet again the same falsehoods that ginned up his followers into attacking the Capitol. You will see them, people going to 28 different voting booths to vote, to put in seven ballots apiece. I mean, and theyre all on camera.

Responding to a question about why he waited three hours before telling his mob of followers to stop attacking the Capitol, Trump falsely claimed he had done so soon after 2 p.m.

In reality, that taped video message was not released until 4:17 p.m. two hours after his supporters had broken into the building while assaulting police officers, and more than 90 minutes after Trump had attacked former Vice President Mike Pence in a tweet for lacking the courage to award Trump a second term despite having lost the election by 7 million votes.

That post enraged his followers and led them to swarm the entrances within minutes, according to a video released by the House Jan. 6 committee last summer.Many roamed the halls, searching for Pence and chanting: Hang Mike Pence!

Michael Fanone, a former Washington, D.C., police officer who was assaulted and nearly killed by Trumps mob that day and is now a CNN contributor, said he was appalled by what he saw. Its worse than I could have ever imagined. Its an absolute disaster, Fanone said. Theres no way to fact-check this guy in real time. Hes a volcano of bullshit.

In just the first half hour of the 70-minute broadcast, Trump also defended his claim that women allow celebrities to sexually assault them; mocked and ridiculed the magazine writer a jury found on Tuesday had been sexually abused by Trump; confirmed that he would pardon his supporters who have been convicted for their actions on Jan. 6; and said that the United States should go ahead and default on its debt.

President Joe Bidens campaign, while Trump was still spewing falsehoods on cable, put out a post on Twitter: Its simple, folks. Do you want four more years of that? If you dont, pitch in to our campaign.

The events moderator, CNNs Kaitlan Collins, frequently tried to cut off Trumps torrent of lies but had limited success. Trump eventually lashed out at her. Youre a nasty person, he said.

Trump again praised Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and refused to say whether he supported Ukraines efforts to repel Putins invasion.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a likely entrant into the 2024 race and the one most willing to go after Trump so far, said Trumps response is telling. Donald Trump refused to say tonight that he wanted Ukraine to win the war with Russia. More proof that he continues to be Putins puppet, he wrote in a Twitter post.

Asked about the criminal investigations he is facing for his actions leading up to Jan. 6 and for refusing to turn over top secret documents in defiance of a subpoena, Trump claimed they were all designed to derail his 2024 campaign. All of these fake investigations against me are about election interference, he said.

Trumps campaign has tried to use his agreement to do CNNs town hall as evidence that he is unafraid of tough questions, unlike his closest rival in the polls, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has not declared his candidacy but has become famous for avoiding interviews from all but the most friendly news outlets.

Trump himself portrayed CNNs decision to host him as proof that even organizations that had been critical of him understand that they need him to boost viewership.

CNN is rightfully desperate to get those fantastic Trump ratings back. They were ratings like none other, and they want them back. They made me a deal I couldnt refuse, he said in a video statement he posted to his personal social media platform earlier Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, though, Trump appeared to threaten CNN that it had better be nice to him if it wanted to continue having him on its shows. They must treat MAGA, the greatest political movement in our Countrys history, with respect, he said in a Wednesday afternoon post.

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