What is Mike Pence Religion?

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Mike Pence was born on 7th June 1959, in Columbus, Indiana. The former Indiana governor also served as the Vice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Pence is a member of the Republican Party and represented Indiana’s 2nd and 6th districts in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.

Pence started the most significant tax cut in Indiana’s history after becoming the Governor in 2013. He focused more on funding for private education initiatives.

Pence’s unbiased ideas regarding race, gender, or disability were reflected when he signed the bill against abortions because the procedure was the fetus’s race, gender, or disability.

Later in July 2016, Pence took back his gubernatorial reelection campaign and announced himself as the running mate of the Republican Presidential Nominee.

They successfully won the presidential election in 2016. Pence’s appointment as the chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. This task force is specially arranged to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

However, Trump and Pence lost the 2020 US Presidential elections to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Trump and his supporters were not ready to concede this defeat. False election cases and multiple lawsuits were filed, which also turned out to be unsuccessful. Pence conceded the results and didn’t overturn the election certifying Biden and Harris as clear winners.

This led to a tiff between Donald Trump and Pence. Pence also had to face-threatening and violence from Trump’s supporters.

Mike Pence Religion

Mike said, “a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order” about himself. It is said that Mike left the Catholic Church during his college. After that, he became an Evangelical, known as a born-again Christian.

Political Career

Pence started Private practice as an attorney after graduating from Law school in 1986. Pence lost his first run for Congress against Democrat Philip Sharp. He ran against him again in 1990 but once again was unsuccessful. 

In 1988, Pence was hired by a radio station for ‘Washington Update with Mike Pence’. It was a weekly show which ran for half an hour. Pence also started hosting a daily talk show called ‘The Mike Pence Show’ 1992. 

Ending his radio show in 1999, Pence campaigned for Congress, which he eventually won. 

In 2000, Pence ran for the United States House of Representatives. He won the seat and represented Indiana’s 2nd congressional district. He called himself ‘A Christian, a conservative, and a Republican in that order.’ 

Pence was against George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act. Pence went on to win four consecutive times in the House of Representatives. 

As Vice President

Trump chose Mike Pence as his running mate for the US Presidential elections in the year 2016. The decision was made based on Pence’s more robust connections with politically influencing big donors like the Kochs. 

After Trump made this announcement, Pence said, “very supportive of Donald Trump’s call to temporarily suspend immigration from countries where terrorist influence and impact represents a threat to the United States.”

As Trump won the elections, Mike Pence was elected the United States Vice President on 8th November 2016. 

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