Former Vice President Mike Pence just put a plot in motion to steal the GOP back from President Trump.

The establishment refuses to throw in the towel on scheming to derail the President.

And how Mike Pence just demanded Republicans betray Trump will leave you red with rage.

Pence’s name is mud with Trump supporters after January 6.

Pence then ran for President as an establishment Never Trumper in 2024, where he gained no traction and dropped out of the race before a single vote was cast.

Yet Pence hasn’t given up the torch for restoring the pre-Trump GOP, where RINOs launched endless foreign wars, pushed for amnesty for illegal aliens on behalf of their corporate donors, and shipped American jobs overseas to China and Mexico through so-called “free” trade deals.

Pence is angling to play a role in the 2028 GOP primary, where the establishment is plotting to defeat Vice President J.D. Vance and install a Republican in the mold of Mitt Romney or John McCain as the nominee.

As part of this battle plan, Pence was promoting his new book, misleadingly named “What Conservatives Believe,” with podcaster Kevin Gentry, where Pence attacked Trump, his agenda, and his supporters as an aberration and fraudulent conservatives.

Pence framed himself as the heir to Ronald Reagan by echoing Reagan’s “time for choosing” rhetoric when describing the stakes of the 2028 race for the Republican Party.

“That I think Republicans face a new time of choosing, whether we’re going to stay on the path of the traditional conservative principles that have always defined our party for the last half century, or whether we are going to follow the siren song of populism unmoored to conservative principles,” Pence began.

Pence attacked podcasters like Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson for opposing a forever war in the Middle East and smeared them as “isolationists” and complained about their growing influence in the party.

“And there are loud voices in and out of government, some of which have been able to influence the new Trump administration, in ways that are taking our party and our movement far afield from those traditional conservative underpinnings and, you know, where we’ve always been the party of a strong defense and we see America as leader of the free world, the arsenal of democracy, there are a rising chorus of isolationist voices in the Republican Party — I write about that in my book,” Pence began.

Pence then raged about Trump’s tariffs that rebalanced the global trading order that looted American jobs and wealth to ship them to third-world countries.

“Where we have always been a party committed to low taxes, including low tariffs and free trade, now, as we witnessed the president impose unilateral tariffs on friend and foe alike until the Supreme Court stepped in and used the Constitution to turn him back,” Pence added.

Pence then complained that President Trump ended Joe Biden’s blank check for the failed war in Ukraine. 

“But now, as you see, the stops and starts on our support for Ukraine under this administration, nationalizing American businesses, unilateral tariffs, and price controls on everything from pharmaceuticals to credit cards,” Pence stated.

Pence then argued that Trump led the Republican Party astray, and 2028 was the chance to course correct.

“All of this gives, I think, should create a backdrop for a very healthy debate over whether we’re going to stay moving in the direction on these issues that President Trump has led our party, or whether we are going to reground ourselves back to those timeless conservative principles, I think that have always made not only our party successful, but more importantly have made America strong and prosperous and free,” Pence concluded.

Never Trupers have been singing this song for 10 years.

But President Trump’s agenda of America First foreign policy, securing the border, and ending unfair trade deals won the day because Republican voters saw establishment Republicans like Pence as beholden to the swamp as opposed to the interests of the voters.

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