Pence opened his presidential bid with an unusually forceful critique of Trump over Jan. 6, saying, “Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.'
, his temperament and abortion on Wednesday as he became the first vice president in modern history to challenge his former running mate.
Pence, who supports a national ban on abortion, will also criticize Trump's current rhetoric on the topic, even after Trump appointed the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. Trump has declined to say what limits he supports nationally and has blamed some midterm candidates' extreme rhetoric for their losses last November.
Pence and his advisers see Iowa — the state that will cast the first votes of the GOP nominating calendar — as key to his potential pathway to the nomination. Its caucusgoers include a large portion of evangelical Christian voters, whom they see as a natural constituency for Pence, a social conservative who supports a national ban on abortion and often talks about his faith.
A CNN poll conducted last month found 45% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they would not support Pence under any circumstance. Only 16% said the same about Trump. But there remains lingering skepticism among many Republican voters who still believe Pence could have stopped Biden from becoming president.
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