Mike Pence Champions Conservatism Over Populism
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Try to get across and slice it just wide on the post. |
| 0:05.0 | Have they done enough? |
| 0:07.0 | Can they pull it out the bag? |
| 0:09.0 | Does the ref have a clue? |
| 0:11.0 | When you're shouting at the screen, blow your whistle! |
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| 0:19.0 | However you watch, a TV licence is your must-have pass to over 400 live TV channels |
| 0:25.0 | and it also funds the BBC, such TV licence. |
| 0:30.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:39.0 | Former Vice President Mike Pence says it's time for choosing for Republicans and that conservatism |
| 0:45.0 | and a populism unmoored to conservative principles are incompatible. |
| 0:51.0 | And he challenges his former boss Donald Trump on the point. |
| 0:56.0 | Plus Bernie Sanders has become Joe Biden's biggest cheerleader in the presidential rates, |
| 1:01.0 | what behind the Vermont Socialist Enthusiasm and Mitch McConnell, Republican leader, |
| 1:07.0 | says he's sticking around as leader, despite two episodes in which he froze before the cameras. |
| 1:12.0 | Welcome, I'm Paul Gigo with the Wall Street Journal opinion page. |
| 1:15.0 | And I'm here with my colleagues and political analysts extraordinaire, Kyle Peterson |
| 1:22.0 | and Kim Strauss, so welcome to you both. |
| 1:25.0 | Former Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech this week, |
| 1:28.0 | which he clearly considers to be a major theme of his presidential candidacy. |
| 1:33.0 | He really wants to make this demarcation between himself as a traditional conservative |
| 1:38.0 | and some of the other candidates who he describes as populists essentially without conservative principle. |
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