Following Joe Biden’s harsh comments, former Vice President Mike Pence has chosen to take a direct stand in defense of the MAGA movement.
Vice President Mike Pence has shared that, Biden’s effort to trash the patriotic MAGA movement reveals the desperation of the flailing and floundering administration.
This occurred during a Fox News interview, where Pence responded to Biden’s attacks on MAGA, better known by the acronym for former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Biden had thrown harsh comments about the MAGA movement during a recent news conference:
“Let me tell you about this ultra MAGA agenda. It’s extreme, as most MAGA things are.”
“What are the next things that are going to be attacked? Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history — in recent American history,” he said.
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Despite efforts to frame Pence as a critic of the MAGA movement after the Jan 6. Capitol riot, where some narratives had speculated him to be a target of the individuals who stormed the Capitol, he offered his defense.
Pence stated:
“With all due respect, President Biden sounds desperate. It sounds like the rhetoric of an administration grasping for straws.”
“I mean, look, the president’s approval rating speaks for itself. He is exploring … the bowels of American approval numbers in modern history. And it’s because the American people see the failed policies of this administration at home and abroad.”
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Pence felt that Biden’s poor attempt to trash the MAGA movement smeared millions of Americans.
Here’s what he said via Fox News:
“And I think there’s no amount of, you know, any effort by this administration to demean the 74 million people that supported this [MAGA] movement. And millions of Americans who know our economy can be strong, our borders can be secure, and that … America can be respected on the world stage and our values can be respected in our courts, [values] that they love.”
Pence then added that Biden making these comments will only further spur MAGA supporters to activism after demeaning them.
Pence continued on to state:
“That kind of rhetoric [by Biden] will only serve to motivate people that share our values and our vision for the country to turn out to vote.”
“Now with regard to its impact on elections, I must tell you that, look, the failed policies of the Biden administration are almost too many to recount. The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the emboldening of the enemies of freedom around the world. The inflation at a 40-year high, the worst border crisis in history, a crime wave in our cities. All are a testament to the failed left-wing policies of the Biden administration.”
“And I fully expect that voters are going to carry their strong feelings about that into the voting booth.”
Sources: Westernjournal, Fox News