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Pence and his wife, Karen (née Batten), met while he was in law school at Indiana University. [11] They were married in 1985. Pence's father died in 1988, leaving his mother a widow with four grown children and two teenagers. Mike and Karen Pence have three children: Michael, Charlotte, and Audrey.
Pence has been a staunch opponent of efforts to expand LGBT civil rights, during both his governorship and his tenure as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.In 2000, his congressional campaign website said, "Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexuals as a "discrete and insular minority" entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended ...
The Mike Pence 2024 presidential campaign was formally launched on June 5, 2023, when Mike Pence filed paperwork to launch his entry into the 2024 United States presidential election. He formally announced his candidacy two days later.
Multiple reporters, political analysts and commentators noted that former president Donald Trump selecting former vice president Mike Pence to be his running mate once again would be highly unlikely following rifts between the two over the future of the Republican Party and Pence's attempts to distance himself from Trump.
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The meeting was hosted by Gardner and chaired by Vice Chair Kobach, since the chairman, Mike Pence, would not be in attendance. [137] At the meeting, both Gardner and fellow commissioner and Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap rejected the allegation that voter fraud affected the election in New Hampshire in 2016. [138]
Mike Pence ran his first political campaign in 1988 for Indiana's 2nd congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he won his party's nomination, but lost the general election to incumbent Democratic representative Philip R. Sharp. A rematch occurred two years later and Pence lost by a bigger margin.
Great America Committee is a political action committee (PAC) registered by former Vice President of the United States Mike Pence on May 17, 2017. It is the first example of an active vice president creating such a type of political action committee while serving in office.