Mike Pence Drops Out of 2024. Will Others Follow?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The former Vice President's past with Donald Trump proved too much of a distraction from his message of classic conservatism, and he hadn't qualified for next week's GOP presidential debate. But as Nikki Haley surges, is further Republican consolidation coming? Plus, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases on whether public officials may block constituents on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.0	for communications platform as a service.
0:20.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,
0:23.0	this is Potomac Watch.
0:27.0	Vice President Mike Pence suspends his 2024 presidential campaign
0:31.0	as the Supreme Court prepares to take up a case
0:34.0	on whether local school board members
0:36.0	can block disruptive citizens on Facebook.
0:39.0	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:43.0	We are joined today by my colleagues,
0:46.0	columnists, Kim Strassel, and Alicia Finley.
0:49.0	The pile of Republican candidates
0:51.0	vying to go head-to-head with the frontrunner Donald Trump
0:54.0	has won last car in it this week after Mike Pence
0:57.0	announced on Saturday that he was withdrawing his candidacy.
1:02.0	Here's a piece of what he said in Las Vegas
1:04.0	at the Republican Jewish Coalition Summit.
1:07.0	So after much prayer and deliberation,
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