On Friday, they went to the southern state to support rival candidates in the Republican primary for the governor’s election.
Donald Trump and his former vice president, Mike Pence, two likely Republican candidates in the 2024 US presidential election, held clashing rallies in Arizona on Friday. The two have intensified their rivalry since Pence refused to block the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 win.
Early Friday afternoon in Spain, they went to Arizona to support rival candidates in the Republican primary for governor of this southwestern state.
In Arizona, where Trump narrowly lost in 2020, former Republican President Kari Lake is backing as a governor candidate. The former president focused his speech on immigration, a key theme in the campaign in an area with a long border with Mexico.
Pence, for his part, stopped in Phoenix and southern Arizona to support gubernatorial candidate Karrin Taylor Robson, a more traditional Republican who also has the support of that state’s current governor. Pence has positioned himself as a religious and principled conservative under Trump’s attacks, but has refused to confront the former president directly about his interventions, though at the meeting condemned Trump’s fixation on the 2020 election.
Source: La Verdad
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