Mike Pence blasted “huge tech, huge media, huge authorities, [and] even huge enterprise” for advancing a “pernicious woke agenda” that the previous vice chairman mentioned has led American freedoms to be below assault, as he touted his “Freedom Agenda” in the course of the forty fourth Nationwide Conservative Scholar Convention in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
“American freedom is below assault,” Pence informed the viewers of principally school college students in the course of the Younger America’s Basis’s convention.
“Massive tech, huge media, huge authorities, even huge enterprise have locked arms to advance a pernicious woke agenda designed to regulate the American individuals and destroy the American dream.
“The ruling elites right here in Washington and all throughout this nation have by no means been extra out of contact with the values of on a regular basis Individuals however extra, by no means extra intent on imposing their agenda on every one in all us,” Pence mentioned, earlier than laying out a groundwork for the Republican Get together transferring ahead, calling his agenda a “treatment.”
Particularly, the potential 2024 presidential candidate mentioned his agenda is based on “a quite simple dedication to safe the sanctity of life on the heart of American legislation.”
Pence — who has lengthy touted his pro-life beliefs — celebrated the Supreme Courtroom’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade final month saying, “we despatched Roe versus Wade to the ash heap of historical past the place it belongs.”
He referred to as for increasing assist for disaster pregnancies facilities, ending all tax-payer funding of abortion, defunding Deliberate Parenthood, in addition to reforming adoption legal guidelines.
“You'll be able to’t be pro-life should you’re not pro-adoption,” Pence mentioned, including he believes the “future” of the US is “inextricably linked to restoring the unalienable proper to life for each American born.”
“We save the infants, we’ll save America,” he mentioned.
The forty eighth vice chairman additionally took successful at crucial race idea — an instructional idea taught in greater schooling, and which some dad and mom are involved is being taught in decrease grades, that focuses on so-called “systemic racism” — labeling it as “state-sanctioned racism.”
“We have to purge our faculties of crucial race idea and restore patriotic schooling in each classroom in America,” Pence mentioned.
In his remarks, Pence revealed that his “freedom agenda” additionally seeks to forestall transgender athletes from collaborating in sports activities in opposition to the gender with which they establish, defend the Second Modification, safe the southern border with a accomplished border wall, prolong Trump-Pence tax cuts, faucet American power, proceed assist for Ukraine, label China because the “best risk to our economic system,” and finish the “woke tradition” within the navy.
“If you see the aggressive liberalism of this administration and their allies in Congress, frankly 2022 could also be one of the best probability we'll ever should construct a long-lasting majority,” Pence mentioned, turning to the midterm elections.
“Configuring the conservative motion to meet conservatism’s function and to save lots of our nation from the left wing tyranny, socialism and decline,” he mentioned. “Now some individuals might select to concentrate on the previous. However elections, elections are concerning the future. And I imagine conservatives should concentrate on the long run to win again America.”
” In 2022, the American individuals will determine whether or not their youngsters and grandchildren will stand tall as residents of the freest nation on earth, or whether or not they’ll be pressured to stay within the financial ethical and religious decline with socialism,” Pence added.
The convention – which started Monday and is about to final till Saturday – is hosted by the Younger America’s Basis, the place Pence is a Ronald Reagan Presidential Scholar.
He was initially alleged to make comparable remarks throughout a speech on the Heritage Basis Monday night. Nonetheless, the occasion was canceled final minute after his flight was diverted on account of “extreme climate.”
The occasion has but to be rescheduled.
Pence’s Tuesday remarks come solely hours earlier than his former working mate is scheduled to present the keynote handle in the course of the America First Coverage Institute’s two-day summit at roughly 3 p.m.
Whereas it's unclear if Trump will preserve his concentrate on the midterms or his endless grievances over dropping the 2020 presidential election, the summit is about to focus on decreasing power and fuel costs, bringing down inflation, combating crime and the border, in addition to the “management” of kids’s schooling.
Trump’s anticipated speech marks the primary time the forty fifth president has publicly returned to Washington D.C. after leaving workplace simply earlier than President Biden’s inauguration.
Neither Republican has introduced a doable run for president in 2024, nonetheless the back-to-back occasions have spurred some hypothesis a couple of potential showdown between the 2 as each Trump and Pence search to information the GOP.
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