Politico | Pence ties himself to Trump, in first public speech since leaving office

In his first public speech since leaving office, former vice-president Mike Pence on Thursday closely aligned himself with his old boss, touting the Trump administration’s accomplishments while urging conservatives to reject what he called the Biden administration’s “far-left agenda”.

“But how times have changed,” Pence said. “In just 100 days, the Biden-Harris administration has launched an avalanche of liberal policies that threaten to derail all the progress that we made.”

On Thursday evening, Pence headlined a dinner hosted by the Palmetto Family Council, a South Carolina social conservative Christian group. His remarks, delivered at a convention centre in Columbia, South Carolina, largely focused on what he said he and former president Donald Trump were able to accomplish during their four years in office.

Pence touted a variety of their administration’s accomplishments, from conservative judicial appointments and the Operation Warp Speed vaccine programme, to foreign policy achievements like the Abraham Accords.

“It was four years of consequence, four years of results and four years of promises made and promises kept,” he said.