Pence rails against Trump's 'siren song of populism' as he tries to energize his 2024 campaign
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MANCHESTER, N.H. Former Vice President Mike Pence cast the 2024 election as a fight for the future of conservatism and called on fellow Republicans to reject the siren song of populism" championed by former President Donald Trump and his followers.
Should the new populism of the right seize and guide our party, the Republican Party weve long known will cease to exist and the fate of American freedom would be in doubt," Pence said in what his campaign plugged as a major speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College Wednesday afternoon.
The speech comes at a critical time for Pence, whose campaign has struggled to build momentum since its launch. Four months ahead of Iowa's kickoff caucuses, Trump remains the race's undisputed frontrunner. Pence, who served four years as Trump's loyal second-in-command, has tried to paint himself as the race's most conservative candidate as he champions policies that have fallen out of favor with many Republican voters.
Pence linked the right's populism promoting a hard focus on ordinary people's complaints about big government and so-called elites to progressivism on the left as "fellow travelers on the same road to ruin.
