Former Vice President Mike Pence and former President Donald Trump employ different approaches to winning over Iowa voters.
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But Pence isn’t always deferential to his former boss. The three-day Iowa blitz was peppered with questions from voters about Trump -- including two directly about Pence’s his role in certifying Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021, a move that Trump falsely claims is why he is not currently in the White House. Pence, who usually refers to his frontrunner opponent carefully, offered some sharp responses back.
Pence's mention of Trump is mostly delicate while interacting with voters in Iowa, often telling people he’s proud of the accomplishments of the Trump-Pence administration and was loyal to the president “right up until that fateful day that my oath to the Constitution of the United States required me to do otherwise.”
In Council Bluffs on Friday, hundreds lined up to hear Trump boast about the agricultural accomplishments of his presidency and stop at a local Dairy Queen before leaving the state. Throughout his remarks, Trump took jabs at his closest rival, Gov. Ron DeSantis. He did not mention Pence once. Bob Vander Plaats, president of The Family Leader and an influential Evangelical Christian activist in the state, noted that an Iowa win, especially against former President Trump, could be one of the surest ways to gain serious"It's not always that you pick the winner, but you narrow the field," said Vander Plaats, who acknowledged that past Iowa caucus winners like Cruz, Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee didn't go on to become presidential nominees.
But Versteeg, in an interview with ABC News following the event, said he still wasn’t sure he’d caucus for Pence. He said he needed to give a “few more” a look.
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