Mike Pence announces: 'I will not be endorsing Donald Trump'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : "Almost immediately after Pence ended his own 2024 candidacy, Trump declared at a campaign event, "[Pence] should endorse me.
56% : He enabled Trump.
55% : I'm often reminded of a June 2018 gathering at FEMA headquarters, where Trump sat at the head of the table, took a water bottle, and moved it to the floor.
55% : He covered for Trump.
55% : The practical implications are limited -- it's not as if much of the GOP base still looks to the Hoosier for electoral guidance -- but the symbolic significance is extraordinary: Trump is so dangerous that his own former vice president and former handpicked governing partner won't endorse his candidacy.
45% : Most of the former Republican presidential candidates did something predictable upon ending their candidacies: They endorsed Donald Trump.
41% : For Trump, nothing ever is.
40% : The practical implications are limited but the symbolic significance is extraordinary: Trump is so dangerous that Mike Pence won't endorse his candidacy.
39% : The former president added that he might not get such an endorsement, however, because "[p]eople in politics can be very disloyal."To the extent that reality still has any meaning, Pence's loyalties to Trump were practically limitless.
28% : "It should come as no surprise," the Indiana Republican said on Fox News, "that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.
23% : "Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years," he added, "and that's why I cannot in good conscience endorse Donald Trump in this campaign.
8% : Indifferent to Pence's years of loyalty, Trump put his former vice president in danger on Jan. 6, defended rioters' "hang Mike Pence" chants, blamed Pence for the violence at the Capitol, and taunted his former vice president as a "delusional" coward and bad person.

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