RINO Mike Pence joined NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday and spent the first seven minutes of the interview trashing Trump and the MAGA movement in response to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s primary win against RINO Texas Senator John Cornyn. 

When asked for his take on the Senate primary runoff between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, Pence appeared to avoid the question, instead going on a bizarre tangent about conservative principles and the threat posed by Trump supporters, while promoting his upcoming book, titled “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience.” Pence conceded that Trump weilds “enormous popularity” in the GOP but slammed the populist right supporters of the President while condemning Trump for embracing the “new threat to that historic conservatism.”

“There are voices that have pulled us back from unwavering support as leader of the free world, particularly in Eastern Europe, and even many challenging our support for Israel. And then, lastly, just marginalizing the right to life, which has always been at the center of our movement,” he said, oddly accusing the populist right of turning on the pro-life movement. “So, for me, I’m not surprised by what happened in Texas or in the other primaries because of the way the President has championed our cause against the radical left, but I want people to understand what conservatives believe as we go into this midterm election.”

When pressed on whether or not he supports Paxton, Pence again avoided the question, telling host Kristen Welker, “Well, I could never, if I was voting in Texas, I could never vote for the Democrat nominee, Talarico.” Pressed again, Pence still refused to answer, instead saying, “Republicans have lost our way.”

WATCH:

Welker: Mr. Vice President, do you support Ken Paxton?

Pence: Well, I could never, if I was voting in Texas, I could never vote for the Democrat nominee, Talarico, who is a radical left, supports abortion on demand, has embraced the radical gender ideology of the Democratic Party.

Welker: But do you support Ken Paxton?

Pence: Look, I think in many respects Republicans have lost our way, but Democrats have lost their mind, and I think the reason why we’re going to hold the Senate and we have a real shot to hold the House is because of the extremism on the Democratic side. I mean, you literally have candidates, not just the mayor of New York, but some of the most prominent voices in the party, that are openly advocating for socialist policies and socialism itself.

Pence: And I think that’s the reason why this election is so important, but it’s also, it’s also the reason why I think there is an enormous opportunity ahead for Republicans to be a choice, not an echo, as President Ronald Reagan said back in the day, is to literally say, as they go farther and farther to the progressive left, the answer ought not to be the antidote of the populist right of protectionism, isolationism, and marginalizing the right to life. The answer ought to be to sound as the Bible says, a clear call for conservative principles, and that’s what I’m going to be advocating in this book and across the country.

Throughout the interview, Pence continued trashing Trump for what he described as a departure from his idea of conservative politics, which regular Americans see as necessary to combat the modern-day left’s extremism and the globalist takeover of our country.

“I give him all the credit in the world for the hold that he has on Republican voters, but I maintain to you that it’s because of the president’s commitment to take on the radical left in our four years and also ever since, but I think what’s lesser known right now is the way the second Trump administration has departed from the conservative agenda that we governed on, the conservative agenda that has defined the Republican party since the days of Ronald Reagan and before,” Pence said before criticizing Trump for taking nationalistic positions, especially on NATO and the war in Ukraine. 

“When you see an administration with broad-based tariffs, nationalizing American businesses, questioning and pulling back from our allies as they endure the brutal assault in Eastern Europe from Russia, I think that I think Republicans would do well to take some time to reflect on what we believe again and take that message to the American people.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Pence further trashed Trump’s policies, playing into the Democratic Party’s narrative about January 6, describing Trump’s anti-weaponization fund to compensate victims of Biden’s lawfare as “deeply offensive.”

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