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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Republican presidential candidates Jocelyn for Position, a week from the first 2024 debate,

but the big question remains will Donald Trump show up? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the

Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board members,

Manay, Uquay Barua, and Kate Batchelder O'Dell. Let's start with Mike Pence. He is out with

another plan, his second from his policy platform explaining what he wants to do as president.

So far, he has the field, the policy field mostly to himself. Last week, he put out a plan

for energy independence to drill more oil and gas in the US. Let's listen to him on a video

explaining what he intends to do. Remember $2 gallon gas? I do. And then Joe Biden became

president of the United States and launched his war on energy. Since that time, gasoline prices

are up 60%. Electricity prices are up 25%. Joe Biden's war on energy is causing real hardship

for working families, small businesses, and family farms. But we've got a plan to relieve all of that.

We just unveiled a Pence energy plan that'll not only put our country back on a path to energy

independence, but by 2040, we will reclaim America's role as the leading producer of energy in

the world. Manay, much of this Pence energy plan strikes me as classic Republican policies that

many of these candidates running in 2024 would implement opening federal lands for drilling

leases, changing the National Environmental Policy Act to cut permitting times. But I do give

Pence credit for being out there and talking about the issues. Try to tell people what he wants

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