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EXCLUSIVE – Former Vice President Mike Pence says his fight to keep the Republican Party from drifting too far from its conservative roots and principles, amid a rise of populism in the GOP and big government creep in President Donald Trump’s second administration, is “the calling of my life right now.”
And Pence takes issue with the conventional wisdom that Trump, since he first won the White House a decade ago, has upended and completely transformed the Republican Party.
“I’m convinced that while President Trump has changed some aspects of the agenda of the Republican Party, he hasn’t really changed the Republican Party,” Pence argued in an exclusive interview this past week with Fox News Digital, a couple of months ahead of the release of a new book promoting the conservative agenda.
Sitting in his Washington, D.C., office at Advancing American Freedom, his policy and advocacy organization that has been expanding in recent months, the former vice president emphasized, “We intend to be a voice for what conservatives believe and have always believed, and that’s fiscal responsibility, traditional values, strong defense and American leadership.”
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President Donald Trump arrives with then-Vice President Mike Pence attend a campaign rally in Traverse City, Michigan, on Nov. 2, 2020. (Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Images)
Pence is a former congressman and Indiana governor who served as vice president during Trump’s first term in office before breaking with his boss amid the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as he oversaw congressional certification of the 2020 election results.
The former vice president gave a thumbs up to some of what Trump’s accomplished in his second term.
“I’ve been very proud of the fact of what this administration accomplished in securing our border. I was pleased that the administration turned aside from those…
