Former President Donald Trump this week responded to Republicans who are refusing to endorse him for president after his former vice president said he wouldn’t vote for him in 2024.
While speaking to reporters in Florida on Tuesday, the former president was asked about a recent interview in which former Vice President Mike Pence said he would not endorse him for president.
“I couldn’t care less,” President Trump told the media, responding to a question about the former vice president. “I couldn’t care less. We need patriots. We need strong people in our country. Our country is going downhill very fast, very rapidly.”
Elaborating, he added: “Millions of people coming across the border, coming from jails, from prisons, coming from mental institutions and insane asylum terrorists. We need strong people in this country. We don’t need weak people.”
After essentially clinching the Republican Party nomination for president after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley dropped out of the race, President Trump has called on Republicans to unite to defeat Democrats at the polls in November.
Last week, Mr. Pence told LeakXtra.com that he “cannot in good conscience” endorse his former boss for president in 2024, claiming that President Trump is “pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years.” It’s not clear who Mr. Pence would endorse, but he stressed he would “never vote” for President Joe Biden or a third-party candidate.
