FACT CHECK: No, Mike Pence Did Not Endorse The Harris-Walz Ticket In The 2024 Presidential Election
A viral video shared on X purports to show former Republican Vice President Mike Pence endorsing the Harris-Walz ticket in the 2024 presidential election.
— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) October 14, 2024
Verdict: False
The claim is false, as the video is missing context. In the original video, Pence says he could never vote for the Harris-Walz presidential ticket. Pence made the comment during an August 2024 event at The Gathering with conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson.
Fact Check:
A recent Morning Consult poll shows 2024 Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris “leads by four points,” according to a recent round-up article from Forbes. Similarly, a new NBC News poll shows Harris and 2024 Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump are tied at 48%, the same Forbes article indicates.
The X video, viewed over 200,000 times as of writing, purports to show Pence endorsing the Harris-Walz ticket in the 2024 presidential election.
“Vote for [Democratic Vice President] Kamala Harris as President of the United States Or [Democratic Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz as her running mate, period, paragraph,” Pence appears to say in the video.
“And I think it’s, I think it’s important that we understand exactly what’s coming down the tracks from the other side. But in the same breath, I also think we also need to think about who we are as conservatives and between me and my former running mate [former President Donald Trump], I cannot endorse President Trump’s continuing assertion that I should have set aside my oath to support and defend the Constitution and acted in a way that would have overturned the [2020] election in January of 2021. I just cannot, I cannot endorse this growing abandonment of our allies on the world stage that’s taken hold in parts of our party. I cannot endorse ignoring our national debt that reached $35 trillion just in the last week,” Pence continued.
The claim is false, as the video is missing context. In the original video, Pence says he could never vote for the Harris-Walz presidential ticket. Pence made the comment during an August 2024 event at The Gathering with Erickson. Likewise, an August 2024 ABC News article reiterating Pence’s comments from the event indicates he does not support the Harris-Walz presidential ticket.
In addition, Snopes debunked the claim on Oct. 14, stating the video had been edited. Furthermore, Pence does not appear to have publicly commented on the claim via his verified social media accounts. (RELATED: Did Trump Post This Statement About Jack Smith?)
Check Your Fact has contacted Pence for comment.
