Pence digs at Trump’s 2020 lie: ‘elections are about the future’ – live

Pence digs at Trump over 2020 obsession

Mike Pence has been taking shots at his former boss Donald Trump during an appearance at the Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington DC this morning, urging his audience of conservative students to look to the future, not backwards.

The former vice-president, who is mulling his own run for the presidency in 2024, is touting a “freedom agenda” which he says is forward focused.

His mentions of Trump by name were limited to claiming credit for their administration’s perceived achievements. But the former president’s ongoing obsession with his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden is clearly on Pence’s mind:

Some people may choose to focus on the past. But elections are about the future. And I believe conservatives must focus on the future to win back America.

We can’t afford to take our eyes off the road in front of us.

His comments appeared more tame than previous attacks on his one-time boss, whose supporters wanted to hang Pence during the deadly 6 January Capitol riot as Trump pressed him to refuse to certify Biden’s victory.

But with the former running mates appearing to move in opposite directions, highlighted by their backing of rival candidates in Arizona’s Republican primary for state governor, Pence is keen to assert he is the politician looking to the future.

I came today not to look backwards but to look forward. The truth of the matter is, now more than ever, conservatives need to be focused on the challenges Americans are facing today and offer bold and positive agenda solutions for the future.

The conservative movement has always been built on the notion that ideas have consequences. Conservatism is bigger than any one moment, any one election, or any one person. It’s always been about ideas.

Referring to the cancelation of his scheduled speech at the Heritage Foundation last night, due to a thunderstorm, Pence said:

More than ever, we need to lead America with a freedom agenda focused on the future. God must have had different plans for today. For he must have decided that a talk about the future… should be given to the rising generation.

His hour-long speech ended with one final dig:

I truly believe elections are about the future. That is absolutely essential… that we don’t give way to the temptation to look back.

We’ll be watching Trump’s response this afternoon when he speaks at the America First Agenda summit, also in Washington.

It’s a win for Joe Biden in the Senate … members have just voted 64-32 to move forward on the Chips Act, which seeks to provide about $52bn for US companies manufacturing computer chips, plus tax credits and other incentives.

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The president spoke with industry leaders and labor officials from the White House yesterday, urging Congress to get the bill to his desk as soon as possible.

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Biden says the money is essential to reverse a shortage of semiconductors in the US, and keep the country at the cutting edge of defense, healthcare and the burgeoning electric vehicle market.

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But not all commentators are in favor. In an analysis for the Guardian last month, former US labor secretary Robert Reich called industry’s demands for the subsidies in exchange for producing more chips “extortion”.

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The Senate just moved forward on Chips for America with a strong bipartisan vote: 64-32.

We’re one step closer to lowering prices for Americans, strengthening domestic supply chains and bolstering national security.

Congress should send this to @POTUS desk as soon as possible.

— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) July 26, 2022

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Chief justice John Roberts made ultimately fruitless efforts to persuade fellow Supreme Court conservatives to preserve abortion rights, CNN said on Tuesday.

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The network has published an analysis of events leading up to the court’s overturning of almost half a century of federal abortion protections last month, including a claim that Roberts pressed Brett Kavanaugh – one of three Donald Trump-appointed justices – in particular to change his vote.

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Eventually, the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that gave constitutional protection to women seeking an abortion was overturned in a 5-4 vote, with Roberts siding with the liberal minority.

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But he did vote with the conservatives in a 6-3 decision that upheld a Mississippi abortion ban that gave rise to the Roe v Wade challenge.

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CNN said “multiple sources” told the network that Roberts’ overtures, particularly to Kavanaugh, raised fears among conservatives, and hope among liberals, that he could change the outcome trailed in the leaking of the draft opinion to Politico in May.

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But once that draft was published, CNN said, conservatives pressed to try to hasten release of the final decision and Roberts was “ thwarted by the sudden public nature of the state of play”.

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Mike Pence has been taking shots at his former boss Donald Trump during an appearance at the Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington DC this morning, urging his audience of conservative students to look to the future, not backwards.

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The former vice-president, who is mulling his own run for the presidency in 2024, is touting a “freedom agenda” which he says is forward focused.

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His mentions of Trump by name were limited to claiming credit for their administration’s perceived achievements. But the former president’s ongoing obsession with his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden is clearly on Pence’s mind:

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Some people may choose to focus on the past. But elections are about the future. And I believe conservatives must focus on the future to win back America.

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We can’t afford to take our eyes off the road in front of us.

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His comments appeared more tame than previous attacks on his one-time boss, whose supporters wanted to hang Pence during the deadly 6 January Capitol riot as Trump pressed him to refuse to certify Biden’s victory.

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But with the former running mates appearing to move in opposite directions, highlighted by their backing of rival candidates in Arizona’s Republican primary for state governor, Pence is keen to assert he is the politician looking to the future.

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I came today not to look backwards but to look forward. The truth of the matter is, now more than ever, conservatives need to be focused on the challenges Americans are facing today and offer bold and positive agenda solutions for the future.

n

The conservative movement has always been built on the notion that ideas have consequences. Conservatism is bigger than any one moment, any one election, or any one person. It’s always been about ideas.

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Referring to the cancelation of his scheduled speech at the Heritage Foundation last night, due to a thunderstorm, Pence said:

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More than ever, we need to lead America with a freedom agenda focused on the future. God must have had different plans for today. For he must have decided that a talk about the future… should be given to the rising generation.

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His hour-long speech ended with one final dig:

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I truly believe elections are about the future. That is absolutely essential… that we don’t give way to the temptation to look back.

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We’ll be watching Trump’s response this afternoon when he speaks at the America First Agenda summit, also in Washington.

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Representative Glenn Thompson, a Pennsylvania Republican, attended his son’s same-sex wedding days after the lawmaker voted against a bill that would codify the right to have a same-sex marriage into federal law.

Thompson was one of 157 Republicans who voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, which passed the US House last week. On Friday, he attended his son’s wedding.

“Congressman and Mrs Thompson were thrilled to attend and celebrate their son’s marriage on Friday night as he began this new chapter in his life,” a spokesperson for the lawmaker, Maddison Stone, said in a statement on Monday. “The Thompsons are very happy to welcome their new son-in-law into their family.”

Democrats are pushing the measure amid concern that the US supreme court could take away the right to same-sex and interracial marriage in the wake of its decision to overturn the nationwide right to access an abortion. Those concerns were prompted by supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, who used a concurring opinion in the abortion case to suggest that the court use the same rationale to revisit its 2015 decision protecting same-sex marriage.

After the vote on the Respect for Marriage Act, Stone said the measure was a “stunt”.

“This bill was nothing more than an election-year messaging stunt for Democrats in Congress who have failed to address historic inflation and out of control prices at gas pumps and grocery stores,” Stone told the Centre Daily Times.

In 2015, the supreme court ruled the constitution protects the right to a same sex-marriage in a case called Obergefell v Hodges. After the Obergefell ruling, Thompson told a local newspaper that he wanted to make sure the religious rights of others were protected.

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It’s a win for Joe Biden in the Senate … members have just voted 64-32 to move forward on the Chips Act, which seeks to provide about $52bn for US companies manufacturing computer chips, plus tax credits and other incentives.

The president spoke with industry leaders and labor officials from the White House yesterday, urging Congress to get the bill to his desk as soon as possible.

Biden says the money is essential to reverse a shortage of semiconductors in the US, and keep the country at the cutting edge of defense, healthcare and the burgeoning electric vehicle market.

But not all commentators are in favor. In an analysis for the Guardian last month, former US labor secretary Robert Reich called industry’s demands for the subsidies in exchange for producing more chips “extortion”.

The Biden administration said Tuesday it will sell an additional 20m barrels of crude oil from the strategic petroleum reserve as part of an ongoing effort to rein in gas prices.

It’s part of a previously announced plan to release a million barrels every day for 180 days, senior administration officials said during a briefing with reporters.

The officials also announced a treasury department analysis estimating that the oil releases have helped bring down the price of gas by as much as 40c per gallon.

The price of gas has fallen in recent weeks to a national average of $4.32, according to the AAA, but remains high amid soaring inflation and exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine. The painfully high cost of fuel, food and rent is a source of deep frustration and anxiety among the American public and a political liability for the president and Democratic party ahead of November’s midterms.

The analysis was published as new data showed consumers have grown even more pessimistic about the state of the US economy.

Republicans have hammered the Biden administration over gas prices, accusing it of taking a victory lap when prices remain high. A slew of new economic data this week is likely to raise fears that the US may be headed toward a recession.

Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the 6 January House panel probing Donald Trump’s attempts to stay in power following his 2020 election defeat, says he sees “positive developments” from the justice department’s parallel criminal inquiry, even if its progress isn’t clearly visible.

The Illinois congressman told CNN’s New Day on Tuesday that he was aware of frustration, some of it his own, caused by a perceived lack of motion on the legal front, even as damning revelations about Trump’s conduct were aired in the House panel’s recent public hearings.

But he said he was more encouraged by what he’s seen lately:

There was a lot of frustration, just kind of personally, for the last, I guess, year and a half, like, what’s DoJ doing?

I think our investigation, though it is not a criminal investigation, certainly has brought some things to light that DoJ is watching, and it seems like between that and some of the search warrants that have been served and some of the other things that we have seen, that they are moving forward.

If they are moving forward on looking at this stuff, that’s positive for the country, even if, for the short term, it may be hard.

The House panel wrapped up what analysts said was the “first season” of public hearings last week, but members are hinting that could be more in the fall as further evidence emerges.

Meanwhile, senior Republican officials in Illinois are ignoring demands by Trump-aligned party members to sanction Kinzinger, similar to action taken against the panel’s other Republican, Liz Cheney, by her party in Wyoming.

Politico reports that Darren Bailey, a Trump-backed Republican running for governor, and state party president Don Tracy, issued statements “focused on uniting the party” as it aims to oust incumbent Democrat JB Pritzker from the governor’s mansion in November.

Read details of CNN’s interview with Kinzinger here.

Chief justice John Roberts made ultimately fruitless efforts to persuade fellow Supreme Court conservatives to preserve abortion rights, CNN said on Tuesday.

The network has published an analysis of events leading up to the court’s overturning of almost half a century of federal abortion protections last month, including a claim that Roberts pressed Brett Kavanaugh – one of three Donald Trump-appointed justices – in particular to change his vote.

Eventually, the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that gave constitutional protection to women seeking an abortion was overturned in a 5-4 vote, with Roberts siding with the liberal minority.

But he did vote with the conservatives in a 6-3 decision that upheld a Mississippi abortion ban that gave rise to the Roe v Wade challenge.

CNN said “multiple sources” told the network that Roberts’ overtures, particularly to Kavanaugh, raised fears among conservatives, and hope among liberals, that he could change the outcome trailed in the leaking of the draft opinion to Politico in May.

But once that draft was published, CNN said, conservatives pressed to try to hasten release of the final decision and Roberts was “ thwarted by the sudden public nature of the state of play”.

After watching Mike Pence take shots at Donald Trump’s 2020 election obsession this morning, we’ll be looking out for the former president’s response this afternoon when he addresses the America First Agenda Summit in Washington DC.

My colleague David Smith has this preview of Trump’s first return to Washington since leaving office:

Mr Trump is going (back) to Washington. The former president will return to the nation’s capital on Tuesday, marking his first visit to the city since leaving office last year.

Trump will deliver the keynote address at a summit held by the America First Policy Institute, a thinktank formed by some of his former White House advisers.

AFPI’s leaders have said the America First Agenda Summit will focus on the Republican party’s plans to combat inflation and improve the US immigration system, but that agenda is unlikely to stop Trump from recirculating his lies about the 2020 election.

The summit comes less than a week after the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection held its second primetime hearing, which focused on Trump’s inaction during the deadly Capitol attack. The committee outlined how Trump refused for hours to intervene and instead watched television coverage of the violence, even as some of his closest advisers pleaded with him to take action.

Trump is expected to confront the committee’s accusations in his Tuesday speech, as he has remained determined to criticize those who did not support his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference in Nashville, Tennessee, last month, Trump again attacked Mike Pence, his former vice-president, for refusing to interfere with the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory on January 6.

“Mike Pence had a chance to be great. He had a chance to be frankly historic,” Trump said. “But just like [former Attorney General] Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people, Mike – and I say it sadly because I like him – but Mike did not have the courage to act.”

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Ted Cruz, the Republican Texas senator, has endorsed fellow rightwinger Harriet Hageman for Congress in Wyoming in a direct challenge to incumbent Liz Cheney.

“Harriet will be a rock-ribbed conservative congresswoman who will always defend the constitution,” Cruz says in a fawning statement.

“She knows the importance of standing up for individual constitutional rights and fighting back against the federal government.”

Cheney, a long-serving Republican congress member, has drawn criticism from Donald Trump supporters such as Cruz for serving as vice-chair of the January 6 House panel investigation the former president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Wyoming’s primary takes place on 16 August. A Casper Star Tribune poll last week showed Cheney trailing Hageman by 22%.

Mike Pence has been taking shots at his former boss Donald Trump during an appearance at the Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington DC this morning, urging his audience of conservative students to look to the future, not backwards.

The former vice-president, who is mulling his own run for the presidency in 2024, is touting a “freedom agenda” which he says is forward focused.

His mentions of Trump by name were limited to claiming credit for their administration’s perceived achievements. But the former president’s ongoing obsession with his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden is clearly on Pence’s mind:

Some people may choose to focus on the past. But elections are about the future. And I believe conservatives must focus on the future to win back America.

We can’t afford to take our eyes off the road in front of us.

His comments appeared more tame than previous attacks on his one-time boss, whose supporters wanted to hang Pence during the deadly 6 January Capitol riot as Trump pressed him to refuse to certify Biden’s victory.

But with the former running mates appearing to move in opposite directions, highlighted by their backing of rival candidates in Arizona’s Republican primary for state governor, Pence is keen to assert he is the politician looking to the future.

I came today not to look backwards but to look forward. The truth of the matter is, now more than ever, conservatives need to be focused on the challenges Americans are facing today and offer bold and positive agenda solutions for the future.

The conservative movement has always been built on the notion that ideas have consequences. Conservatism is bigger than any one moment, any one election, or any one person. It’s always been about ideas.

Referring to the cancelation of his scheduled speech at the Heritage Foundation last night, due to a thunderstorm, Pence said:

More than ever, we need to lead America with a freedom agenda focused on the future. God must have had different plans for today. For he must have decided that a talk about the future… should be given to the rising generation.

His hour-long speech ended with one final dig:

I truly believe elections are about the future. That is absolutely essential… that we don’t give way to the temptation to look back.

We’ll be watching Trump’s response this afternoon when he speaks at the America First Agenda summit, also in Washington.

Good morning politics blog readers. It’s shaping up to be a busy day in Congress, with Senate Democrats working hard on Republican colleagues to build enough support to pass the Marriage Equality Act by the end of the week.

With the chamber’s August break looming, Democratic Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is keen to advance the same-sex marriage bill that cleared the House last week with the backing of 47 Republicans, and on to Joe Biden’s desk.

But although a handful of Senate Republicans have affirmed their support, it remains to be seen if Democrats in the equally divided chamber can reach the 60-vote threshold they need to force a final vote.

Here’s what else we’re following today:

• Donald Trump returns to Washington DC this afternoon for the first time since leaving office last year. His address to the rightwing America First Agenda Summit is ostensibly policy focused as he mulls another run for the presidency in 2024.
• The 6 January House panel investigating Trump’s efforts to subvert his 2020 election defeat continues its work behind closed doors, following a lively series of public hearings and, as we learned last night, potentially damning testimony from former vice-president Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short.
• Joe Biden, who announced yesterday he’s “feeling great” as he recovers from Covid-19, has a busy schedule. He’s meeting virtually with the head of South Korea’s SK group, which is investing $22bn in American industry, and will attend (virtually) House celebrations of the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• The Senate will vote this morning, after a weather delay yesterday, on the Chips Act, providing $52bn for US companies manufacturing computer chips, plus tax credits and other incentives.
• The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, will give her daily briefing at 3.15pm, beside Biden’s senior economic adviser Brian Deese.