America 2024: Ex-VP Mike Pence Joins Race

Former United States Vice President Mike Pence has formally announced he will campaign for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential race.

The announcement sets him up against former President Donald Trump, the current frontrunner and Pence’s former boss.

Pence’s campaign filed a declaration of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on Monday and the 63-year-old is expected to launch his campaign on Wednesday in the early nominating state of Iowa.

A staunch social conservative and evangelical Christian, the former governor of Indiana has increasingly distanced himself from Trump after rejecting the former president’s demands that he overturn the 2020 election in his role as president of the Senate.

Pence joins a crowded and still-growing field of Republican candidates, which includes Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Tim Scott and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.