Donald Trump and his former Vice President Mike Pence, two likely Republican candidates in the 2024 US presidential election, attended a campaign rally in Arizona on Friday.
And there has been a rift between the two men, whose 2016 campaign managed to land a Republican billionaire into the White House, after Mike Pence refused to block confirmation of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
They are now backing two rival candidates for governor of the southwestern US state of Arizona.
In this remote duel, Pence came to Phoenix to support candidate Karen Taylor Robson, while Trump backed Carrie Lake in Prescott Valley.
Their participation in campaign rallies came a day after the Congressional Investigative Committee revealed the status of the former vice president during the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol building in Washington.
“Arizona finally has a chance to have a strong female governor,” Trump wrote Thursday in his Social Truth. Vote for Carrie Lake.
After keeping the crowd waiting for more than two hours on Friday, he began his speech by talking about immigration, the campaign’s main issue in Arizona, a state that shares a long border with Mexico. He then quickly moved on to talking about the 2020 elections, stating, “The elections were rigged and stolen and the country is being systematically destroyed because of them.”
Donald Trump, still a strong influence in the Republican Party, is hinting at the idea of running for president in 2024.
