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Those you on phones, though, do stand by. We do have

news that we need to deal with. Mike Pence is out. He suspended his campaign. Here he is speaking

to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas over the weekend.

I'm traveling across the country over the past six months.

I came here to say it's become clear to me.

This is not my time.

So after much prayer and deliberation,

I have decided to suspend my campaign for President

defective today. Now I'm leaving this campaign, but let me promise you, I will

never leave the fight for conservative values and I will never stop fighting to elect

principled Republican leaders to every office

in the land. So help me God. Got a standing ovation there from the crowd at the end. I really like

Mike Pence personally. He's been a very good friend to me and my family.

I say this somewhat sheepishly, embarrassingly. He was at Church of the Apostles in Atlanta back in

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