{"id":96252,"date":"2022-05-14T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=96252"},"modified":"2022-05-14T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:15:17","slug":"mike-pence-breaks-with-trump-will-campaign-with-georgia-gov-brian-kemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=96252","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mike Pence Breaks With Trump, Will Campaign With Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/mike-pence-rally-brian-kemp-breaks-trump_n_627e7f99e4b010453ae5249b?utm_campaign=share_email&amp;ncid=other_email_o63gt2jcad4\" target=\"_blank\">HuffPo<\/a>: &#8220;Former Vice President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/mike-pence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Pence<\/a>\u00a0will campaign with Georgia\u2019s incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp the day before this month\u2019s GOP primary in his most significant political break with former President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kemp\u2019s campaign announced Friday morning that Pence will headline a get-out-the-vote rally for Kemp on Monday, May 23rd, the day before the vote. That puts Pence in direct conflict with Trump-endorsed candidate David Perdue, who has been trailing in the polls. Kemp is one of Trump\u2019s top targets this election cycle because of his refusal to cooperate with Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBrian Kemp is my friend, a man dedicated to faith, family and the people of Georgia,\u201d Pence said in a statement. \u201cI am proud to offer my full support for four more years of Brian Kemp as governor of the great state of Georgia!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news comes as Pence has taken steps to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-europe-campaign-2016-bda68166f62a171878dd65b20ec43b1a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">distance himself from Trump<\/a>\u00a0as the former congressman and Indiana governor considers a 2024 presidential run that could put him into direct competition with his former boss.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: &#8220;Former Vice President\u00a0Mike Pence\u00a0will campaign with Georgia\u2019s incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp the day before this month\u2019s GOP primary in his most significant political break with former President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0to date. Kemp\u2019s campaign announced Friday morning that Pence will headline a get-out-the-vote rally for Kemp on Monday, May 23rd, the day before the vote. That&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96253,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96252\/revisions\/96253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}