Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday warned Republicans not to abandon “principles,” as he explained why he “cannot endorse” the GOP presidential ticket in the November elections.
“For my part, you know, I’m staying out of the presidential campaign,” Pence told conservative commentator Erick Erickson in an onstage interview at Erickson’s Atlanta conference dubbed The Gathering.
While assailing the “failures” of the “Biden-Harris administration”—and questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ fitness to be president—Pence also expressed concern over growing Republican skepticism of U.S. military intervention abroad, the Republican National Committee’s newly moderate position on abortion, and other issues.
Pence, founder of the think tank Advancing American Freedom, ran for the GOP presidential nomination before dropping out last…