The former president and current front-runner for the 2024 Republican primary nomination was not the only one to attend the event, with other Republican primary candidates speaking and emphasizing their full support for Israel in its war against Hamas. and they criticized the recent prisoner exchange between the United States and Iran.

Trump, moreover, He said that if he returns to the White House in 2025, he will punish Hamas. and other countries in the Middle East to support them with sanctions and the abolition of visas for the United States.

However, in his half-hour speech, Trump did not mention Mike Pence’s exit from the Republican primaries who served as his vice president during his four years in the White House.

Pence announced he was resigning and would continue to “fight” for Republicans to take over Washington in the next election at the same event, an hour before Trump took the stage in Las Vegas.

With Pence gone, Trump leaves behind one of his biggest enemies in the race.

And of those who remain, only Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie, who stand little chance, have openly criticized Trump, his false accusations of election fraud and his role in the attack on the Capitol.

In that attack on January 6, 2021, Pence, who was acting as president of the Senate that day by virtue of his position as the nation’s vice president, ignored Trump’s calls to block the ratification of Democrat Joe Biden as US president. US states after the election victory.

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