Former Vice President Mike Pence announced Wednesday that he will run for the presidential race in the Republican primary.
In a video posted on social media, Pence said: "We are better than Biden's United States. We can make a U-turn for this country. Today, our party and country need a leader who will turn, as Abraham Lincoln did, to the best angles of our human nature."
"It's easiest to stay on the sidelines, but that's not how I was raised. That is why today, before God and my family, I am announcing my candidacy for President of the United States of America," Pence said.
The former vice president said in March that Trump's tailwind to the rioters "endangered his family and everyone in attendance at the Capitol that day." In a speech in February last year, Pence said of the Capitol riot: "President Trump was wrong, I didn't have the right to overturn the election results." Trump, for his part, did not remain obliged and said he was "very disappointed" in Pence.
Pence, 63, an evangelical Christian, was elected Trump's vice president in 2016 to attract conservative voters to the campaign. He once described himself as "Christian, conservative and Republican, in that order."
On the eve of his official entry into the Republican race, Pence has the support of an average of 3.8 percent of Republicans, far behind Trump, who leads safely with 53.2 percent in the polls, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is in second place with an average of 22.4 percent.
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