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FILE - Sarah Matthews, former White House deputy press secretary, arrives as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House

As Trump seeks the presidency a third time, he’s being shadowed by a chorus of people who served in his administration who have become sharp critics, some offering dire predictions about his return to power.
 
FILE - President Donald Trump listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a briefing at the White House, March 29, 2020, in Washington. In an interview with Fox News Channel Friday, March 15, 2024, Pence said he will not be backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election. "It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year," he said. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he’s not endorsing Trump

 
FILE - President Donald Trump listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Pence’s early exit from the presidential campaign offers a reminder of Trump’s grip on the GOP

 
Karen Pence, left, kisses former Vice President Mike Pence at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in Las Vegas. Pence is dropping his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, ending his campaign for the White House. He said in Las Vegas that "after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today." (AP Photo/John Locher)

Pence ends White House campaign after struggling to gain traction. ‘This is not my time,’ he says

 
FILE - Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks with reporters after signing papers to get on the Republican presidential primary ballot at the New Hampshire Statehouse, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, in Concord, N.H. Pence ended September with just $1.18 million left in his campaign account, a strikingly low number for a presidential contest and far less than his rivals, new filings show. His campaign also has $621,000 in debt — more than half the cash he had remaining — and is scrambling to meet donor thresholds for the Nov. 8 debate. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Mike Pence faces a cash shortage and questions about how much longer his 2024 campaign can survive

 

Trump declines to endorse a national abortion ban, AP Explains

Former President Donald Trump has declined to endorse a national abortion ban and says he believes abortion should be left to the states.
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Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence speaks, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, during an Associated Press 2024 GOP Presidential Candidates Conversations on National Security and Foreign Policy event, held in partnership with Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, at Georgetown University in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Pence will skip the Nevada GOP caucus and instead run in the primary, giving up chance for delegates

Former Vice President Mike Pence will skip the Nevada caucuses run by the state Republican Party and will instead compete in a state-run primary contest.
 
Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence attends an Associated Press 2024 GOP Presidential Candidates Conversations on National Security and Foreign Policy event, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, held in partnership with Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, at Georgetown University in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mike Pence says he is ‘deeply disappointed’ in vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker

GOP presidential candidate Mike Pence, the former vice president, chastised a group of hard-right Republicans who ousted Kevin McCarthy from his role as House speaker Tuesday, saying that “chaos is never America’s friend.”
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition's fall banquet, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Bryon Houlgrave, File)

Pence calls Trump’s attacks on Milley ‘utterly inexcusable’ at AP-Georgetown foreign policy forum

Former Vice President Mike Pence is criticizing his boss-turned-rival, Donald Trump, for calling retired Gen.
 
FILE - President Ronald Reagan, during a brief visit to London, June 8, 1982, makes his address to Britain's Houses of Parliament, in the Royal Gallery of the Palace of Westminster. As most Republican White House hopefuls gather Wednesday at Reagan’s presidential library for a debate, expect to hear more homages to the “Great Communicator.” (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

Ronald Reagan famously spoke of the ‘ash heap of history.’ So do several GOP candidates today

Ronald Reagan gave many notable speeches as president and he was known for his turn of a phrase. Think of his 1982 speech to Britain’s Parliament, when he said “the march of freedom and democracy” was leaving “Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history.”
 
Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence responds to a question during a town hall campaign event, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, at New England College in Henniker, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Pence rails against Trump’s ‘siren song of populism’ as he tries to energize his 2024 campaign

Former Vice President Mike Pence is casting the 2024 election as a fight for the future of conservatism and the GOP.
 
Former Vice President Mike Pence talks to reporters in the spin room after a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX News Channel Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee, with his wife Karen. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Pence says ‘elections are about choices’ after combative first debate performance

Former Vice President Mike Pence says viewers should expect to see the same, more combative candidate at the next GOP debate as he urged his former running-mate-turned-rival Donald Trump to join his competitors on stage next time around.
 
Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence look toward former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX News Channel Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Vivek Ramaswamy takes center stage, plus other key moments from the first Republican debate

Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have dominated the Republican presidential nomination fight for much of the year, but neither dominated the debate stage.
 

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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
 
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a Fair-Side Chat with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds at the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. He says he won't sign the pledge required to participate, but former President Donald Trump's Republican rivals are actively preparing as if he will be on stage for the GOP's first presidential debate next week.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Will Donald Trump show up at next week’s presidential debate? GOP rivals are preparing for it

Donald Trump says he won’t sign the pledge required to participate. But his rivals are actively preparing as if he will be onstage for the GOP’s first 2024 presidential debate next week.
 
Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence waves as he tours the grounds at the Iowa State Fair, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Pence signals debate plan to attack Trump and DeSantis for not pushing national abortion ban

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he expects to call out former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence speaks with the media during a stop at the Indiana State Fair, Aug. 2, 2023, in Indianapolis. Pence announced Tuesday he has qualified for the first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential cycle, securing the required number of donors with just two weeks until candidates gather in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Pence says he’s now met the polling and donor qualifications for the first Republican debate

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he has qualified for the first Republican debate of the 2024 cycle.
 
FILE - Vice President Mike Pence speaks alongside President Donald Trump during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington on March 22, 2020. Former Vice President Mike Pence is refuting claims from ex-President Donald Trump's legal team that Trump never asked him to reject votes from certain states while certifying the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Attorneys for Pence and Trump clash over what Trump told his vice president ahead of Jan. 6

Donald Trump’s defense attorney says the former president never asked Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election.
 

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
 
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and Republican presidential candidate former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

GOP presidential hopeful Chris Christie says ‘inhumanity’ of war is palpable during visit to Ukraine

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has become the second 2024 Republican presidential hopeful to visit Ukraine.
 
FILE - Vice President Mike Pence speaks alongside President Donald Trump during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington on March 22, 2020. As Trump was being arraigned in Washington on yet another round of criminal charges, his former runningmate-turned-rival Mike Pence moved to capitalize on the news, unveiling merchandise that quoted from the indictment. “Too Honest” the shirts and hats read — a reference to Trump's response when Pence rebuffed his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Pence seizes on Trump’s latest indictment as he looks to break through in crowded GOP field

As Donald Trump was being arraigned in Washington on yet another round of criminal charges, his running mate-turned-rival Mike Pence moved to capitalize on the news, unveiling merchandise that quoted from the indictment.
 
Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a stop at the Indiana State Fair, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Pence fought an order to testify but now is a central figure in his former boss’s indictment

The 45-page indictment is informed, in part, by contemporaneous notes that Pence kept of their conversations in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
 
Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Takeaways from the Trump indictment that alleges a campaign of ‘fraud and deceit’

The indictment of Donald Trump on Tuesday marks the first time that the former president has been formally held accountable for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
 
FILE - Rioters wave flags on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump lawyer calls indictment an ‘attack on free speech and political advocacy.’ Follow live updates

Donald Trump’s attorney John Lauro is calling the latest indictment of the former president “an attack on free speech and political advocacy.”
 
FILE - This exhibit from video released by the House Select Committee, shows President Donald Trump recording a video statement on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, from the Rose Garden, displayed at a hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (House Select Committee via AP, File)

Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power

Donald Trump has been indicted on felony charges for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S.
 
This image from U.S. Senate video, introduced at the trial of Bruno Joseph Cua, shows Cua sitting with his feet up in the Senate chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, during the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Cua, who stormed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted a police officer and sat in a Senate floor chair reserved for the vice president was sentenced on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, to one year in prison.(Senate Television via AP)

High school student who sat in Pence’s chair during Capitol riot is sentenced to 1 year in prison

A high school student who stormed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted a police officer and sat in a Senate floor chair reserved for the vice president has been sentenced to one year in prison.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen, left, chat with a patrons during a campaign stop at a diner, June 9, 2023, in Derry, N.H. Weary Republicans who acknowledge Donald Trump's dominance, across New Hampshire are fighting to stop the former president from winning the first-in-the-nation primary. For now, however, they're relying on little more than hope and prayers. Look no further than Pence, who repeatedly appealed to voters' faith as he tried to resurrect his anemic presidential campaign while courting a few dozen voters in a former state lawmaker's backyard. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Nervous Republicans turn to New Hampshire in hopes of stopping Trump

Weary Republicans across New Hampshire, even inside the governor’s office, are desperate to stop former President Donald Trump from winning the first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
 

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
 
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on Monday, July 17, 2023, in Tega Cay, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

DeSantis downplays Jan. 6, says it wasn’t an insurrection but a ‘protest’ that ‘ended up devolving’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is downplaying the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol. In an interview Friday on the podcast of comedian Russell Brand, DeSantis said the riot “was not an insurrection” but a protest that “ended up devolving, you know, in a way that was unfortunate, of course.”
 
FILE - Pastor Robert Jeffress and President Donald Trump pray after Trump signed a full pardon for Alice Johnson in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, in Washington. Jeffress, pastor of an evangelical megachurch in Dallas, has been a staunch supporter of Trump since his first campaign for president. “Conservative Christians continue to overwhelmingly support Donald Trump because of his biblical policies, not his personal piety,” Jeffress told The Associated Press via email. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Some critics see Trump’s behavior as un-Christian. His conservative Christian backers see a hero

For eight years, Donald Trump has managed to secure the support of many evangelical and conservative Christians despite behavior that has often seemed at odds with teachings espoused by Christ in the Gospels.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, July 7, 2023, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Trump said Tuesday that he has received a letter informing him that he is a target of the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump made the claim in a post on his Truth Social platform. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Jan. 6 charges against Trump would add to his mounting legal peril as he campaigns for 2024

Already facing criminal cases in New York and Florida, former President Donald Trump is in increasing legal peril as investigations into his efforts to cling to power after his election loss appear to be coming to a head.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks to campaign volunteers at the Elks Lodge, July 18, 2023, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A target letter sent to Donald Trump suggests that a sprawling Justice Department investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 elections is zeroing in on him. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Trump’s target letter suggests the sprawling US probe into the 2020 election is zeroing in on him

A target letter sent to Donald Trump suggests that a sprawling Justice Department investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 elections is zeroing in on him.
 
CORRECTS CIITY AND LOCATION - Former President Donald Trump visits with campaign volunteers at the Elks Lodge Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump is notified he’s a target of the US criminal probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Former President Donald Trump says he’s been notified he is a target of the Justice Department investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
 
Holding U.S. and Israeli flags, a crowd of largely Evangelical Christians pray during the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) "Night to Honor Israel" during the CUFI Summit 2023, Monday, July 17, 2023, in Arlington, Va., at the Crystal Gateway Marriott. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Crowded GOP field vies for the Christian Zionist vote as Israel’s rightward shift spurs protests

Republican presidential hopefuls made their pitches to Christian Zionists at the annual Christians United for Israel summit in suburban Washington, D.C.
 
FILE - Former Vice President Mike Pence meets with supporters after speaking at the National Celebrate Life Rally at the Lincoln Memorial on June 24, 2023, in Washington. Pence is leaning in on his anti-abortion stance as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination. Pence says he does not support exceptions in the case of nonviable pregnancies, when doctors have determined there is no chance a baby will survive outside the womb.(AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

Pence would ban abortions when pregnancies aren’t viable. His GOP rivals won’t say if they agree

Former Vice President Mike Pence is leaning in on his anti-abortion stance as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination.
 
Former Vice President Mike Pence answers questions from the audience during the Woodbury County GOP and Republican Women meet and greet at Pizza Ranch with Rep. Randy Feenstra, right, in Sioux City, Iowa, Wednesday, July 5, 2023. (Jesse Brothers/Sioux City Journal via AP)

Pence says Trump and DeSantis do not understand broader importance of US military aid to Ukraine

Mike Pence says Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis do not grasp the broader implications of their call for limited military assistance to Ukraine.
 
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