Saturday, October 28, 2023

Nearly 5 months and $620,000 in debt later, Mike Pence suspends his ill-fated presidential campaign

 
He finishes with a 3.5% polling average, down from a peak of 7.0% on February 15, 2023

Poll resultsReal Clear Politics
HeadlineReuters, 10/28/2023
Pence stopped short of endorsing anyone in his speech on Saturday, but in an apparent swipe at Trump, called on Americans to select someone who appeals to "the better angels of our nature" and can lead with "civility." 
Pence failed to attract enough anti-Trump Republican primary voters, and donors, to sustain a candidacy that has languished in the low single digits in opinion polls and struggled to raise money since he announced his White House bid in June. 
As a result Pence, a stolid campaigner short on charisma, was low on cash by October and despite spending time and resources in the first Republican nominating state of Iowa, had failed to catch fire there. 
When his campaign released Pence's third quarter fundraising totals on Oct. 15, his candidacy was $620,000 in debt and only had $1.2 million cash on hand, far less than several better-performing Republican rivals and insufficient to sustain the financial demands of a White House race.

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