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Columbus Congressman Greg Pence is announcing that he will not file for reelection.

The Republican Pence, brother to former Vice President Mike Pence, was first elected to Indianas Sixth Congressional District in 2018. The former VP held the same seat in Congress for 12 years before running for governor.

Congressman Pence, a former Marine, said that he approached the job with purpose and felt he was ready to serve again, when he decided to run in 2017.

As a Marine, Pence served in Beiruit, Lebanon just before the attack on the Marine barracks in 1983 killed 241 service members including 220 Marines. In his first year in office, he championed the OORAH Act which sought to get restitution from Iran for the families of Marines killed in the attack. He has also introdued resolutions in Congress on the anniversaries of the attack, honoring those killed.

Pence said that after three terms, he has decided not to seek re-election but will spend the remainder of his term, focused on delivering constituent services.

He said: To the voters in Indianas 6th District it is a privilege and honor to represent you in our Nations capital.

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Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence was heckled at a campaign stop. (Getty Images)

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Pence was heckled at a campaign stop by a man who came out and claimed the former vice president is gay, too.

Pence was registering for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary vote on Friday (13 October) when he spoke a group of reporters. The heckler started shouting over Pence, which made him stumble over his words.

Mike Pence, are you going to tell them? the anonymous heckler said. You promised today was our coming out day Mike Pence and I are gay.

The heckling was captured on video and shared on X (formerly Twitter) by the news and politics account The Recount.

Were running because we believe, with all humility, that I am the most qualified, most experienced, most tested conservative seeking the Republican nomination, Pence told the audience while attempting to avoid the heckler.

A man standing next to Pence, thought to be a member of his team, stopped the former VP and made an effort to speak to the heckler. He excused Pence, waited for the heckler to finish talking, and apologised to the audience for the interruption.

Ill admit your John Deere is bigger than mine, the heckler said as he seemingly escorted out of the room.

Pence is battling for the Republican presidential nomination against former president and current favourite Donald Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Also in the running are former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Senator Tim Scott, North Dakota governor Doug Burgum and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

Launching his presidential bid, Pence backed a nationwide ban on life-saving gender-affirming healthcare, and has said he intends to reinstate Trumps ban on trans people serving in the US military.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence visited the New Hampshire Secretary of States office in Concord to file for the states primary ballotbut before he could sign the paperwork his visit was interrupted by a heckler claiming to be his lover.

Were running because we simply believe with all humility that Im the most qualified, most experienced, the most tested conservative seeking the Republican nomination, Pence said.

Before he could continue, a man interrupted and claimed to the gaggle of press and Pence supportersKaren Pence among themthat he was romantically involved with Americas 48th vice president.

Mike Pence, are you going to tell them? You promised today was our coming out day, the man said. Mike Pence and I are gay. Heres the proof! Heres the proof!

Pence continued to try and talk over the heckler, but he was clearly thrown off.

Mike Pence, I'll admit your John Deere is bigger than mine, the man shouted as he was apparently escorted out by security.

Pence himself caught flak in March for making a homophobic crack at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for taking maternity leave after his son was born prematurely and placed on a ventilator.

Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression, Pence quipped at the time. Pence has long been the poster child for anti-gay religious freedom movements, with a long track record speaking out and voting against LGBT policies.

As a congressional candidate he sought to redirect funding away from HIV treatments and toward conversion therapy programs. Once in office, Pence supported a constitutional ban on gay marriage, telling colleagues that societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family.

As vice president, Pence struck down protections for trans kids in schools, signed off on limitations of LGBT marriage rights, eliminated non-discrimination protections for gay government contractors and sought to keep transgender people out of the military.

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In 2015, when GOP presidential contenders took the stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, the 40th president's legacy loomed large. Debaters mentioned Reagan nearly four dozen times, according to Fortune.

Eight years later, the Gipper's reputation has taken a beating in some quarters. The illiberal right treats "Zombie Reaganite" as a go-to insult for old-school conservatives and libertarians, deriding the Reaganesque emphasis on free markets, limited government, and "peace through strength" as quaint at best.The GOP is "probably more of a Trump party" than a Reagan party at this point, one attendee of a soiree at the Reagan Library told Politico a couple of weeks ago.

Nonetheless, former Vice President Mike Pence has made it clear that he believes GOP primary voters still have an appetite for a candidate in the Reagan mold. At the second primary debate of the season last night, also held at the Reagan Library, he defended "the conservative agenda that Ronald Reagan brought forward in this party, of a strong national defense, standing with our allies, standing up to our enemies, supporting limited government and traditional values."

"Frankly, our party does face a time for choosing," he said, referring to an iconic speech delivered by Reagan at the 1964 Republican National Convention. It's a choice of "whether we're going to stand on the foundation of that conservative agenda that Ronald Reagan poured, or whether we're going to follow the siren song of populism unmoored to conservative principles."

Earlier this week, four former Reagan administration officials, including former Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner, released an open letter "wholeheartedly" endorsing Pence as the "candidate who embodies the spirit and principles of Ronald Reagan."

Republican voters are, in fact, slightly more likely to name Reagan than Donald Trump as the best recent president, according to Pew. In June, Gallup found that Reagan enjoys a 69 percent approval rating overall, more than 20 points higher than Trump's.

For all that, of course, it's Trump who is dominating the primary field. Pence is currently in fifth place, with less than 5 percent in the RealClearPolitics polling average. Republican voters still love the idea of Reagan, but at a moment when culture war concerns seem to rule, their preference in 2024 may be for an angry warrior over a happy one.

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During last night's Republican presidential debate, former Vice President Mike Pence had a startling answer to a question about what he would do to reduce gun violence.

"I am sick and tired of these mass shootings happening in the United States of America," said Pence. "And if I'm president of the United States, I'm going to go to the Congress of the United States, and we're going to pass a federal expedited death penalty for anyone involved in a mass shooting so that they will meet their fate in months, not years. It is unconscionable that the Parkland shooteris actually going to spend the rest of his life behind bars in Florida. That's not justice. We have to mete out justice and send a message to these would-be killers that you are not going to live out your days behind bars. You're going to meet justice."

This plan is not just unlikely to reduce mass shootings; it would leave lots of accused criminals without important procedural protections. While "mass shooting" doesn't have a set legal definition, one common definition puts it as any shooting with at least four victims, including people who were injured rather than killed. By that metric, over 3,500 mass shootings occurred from 2015 to 2022. Roughly 95 percent of these shootings resulted in fewer than four deaths, according to Everytown for Gun Safety's data. That includes a lot of crimes that do not look like Parklandcrimes in which there could be serious doubts about whether the accused is in fact guilty.

Pence is presumably thinking of those who commit the worst deliberate mass shootings But trying to exact even harsher punishments for the very few who commit such terrible violence will primarily end up affecting those accused of, say, drive-byshootings where the perpetrator isn't obvious.

For this reason, expediting the execution process would massively increase the risk that the state executes a wrongfully convicted person. Pence complained that it takes decades to actually execute someone after a conviction, but that time is typically spent exhausting legal appeal or clemency options. Sometimes, these decades of legal appeals help overturn wrongful convictions, such as in 192 cases of death-row exonerations recorded by the Death Penalty Information Center. In total, one 2014 study estimated that as many as 4 percent of those sentenced to death in America are innocent.

In addition to the increased risk of wrongful execution, making it easier to execute someone sentenced to death would likely not affect the number of people killed by gun violenceor even the number of people killed by mass shootings. There's considerable debate over whether harsher sentences can deter crime in some circumstances. However, it's difficult to see how a swifter death penalty will deter those who plan to commit the worst and rarest mass shootings, considering just how often these shootings end in suicide or the shooter being killed by police or bystanders.

So while Pence and one other Republican presidential candidate are all too excited to make it easier for the state to execute people, expediting the death penalty would be anything but just.

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