Group Aims to Draft Pence for President
Politico reports:
A group of conservatives led by former Kansas Rep. Jim Ryun plan to start an independent expenditure campaign aimed at getting Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) to run for president.
“America’s President Committee” will begin a signature-gathering effort this week to encourage Pence to get into the presidential race. Their website, strong>www.theconservativechampion.org<, will go live Monday.
Pence has gotten buzz on the right in part because he’s seen as a candidate who could unify the three traditional constituencies within the GOP — social conservatives, economic conservatives and foreign-policy conservatives.
Pence has said he will decide later this month whether he’s running for president. If he opts not to enter the race, it may be so that he can run for governor of Indiana next year. But the formation of this group illustrates the appeal he does have among well-connected national conservative activists. Many such Republicans, particularly social conservatives, are less than thrilled at the likely prospects in the field and see the Hoosier as someone who could be something of a consensus candidate.
