His “energy and enthusiasm for Ronald Reagan’s values have and will continue to inspire a new generation of young people,” Walker added in a statement.
Pence left office last month amid a tense relationship with former President Donald Trump following his certification of Joe Biden’s election to the Senate and the January 6 riots in the Capitol. The latest appearance is an attempt to ease his transition back to the higher ranks of the Conservative movement – a development that comes as his former boss remains secluded in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago estate, pending a second impeachment trial in Florida. the Senate.
On Thursday, Pence announced that he would join the Heritage Foundation, another conservative institution, as a leading guest visitor focused on public policy.
Hosting a podcast won’t be a whole new venture for Pence, who is 61. As a former governor of Indiana, he spent a decade as a prominent conservative radio personality in the Midwest prior to his election in 2000 to Congress – a trade he took off as launches his political career. His YAF-sponsored show, which will target a younger audience than the listeners he drew on “ The Mike Pence Show, ” resembles an arrangement the conservative youth group had with Reagan, then California’s governor, then YAF. served as a sponsor for his daily radio commentary in the mid-1970s.
“The vice president will certainly focus on the conservative achievements of the past four years and project those achievements and take the lessons learned and protect them,” said a Pence spokesman.
Pence is also said to be keeping an eye on a possible book deal and has plans to create a new fundraising committee that would serve as his main channel for Republican donors as he works to boost GOP candidates for the House and Senate to join the 2022 midterm elections and weighs a future presidential bid in 2024.
The former vice president, who recently returned from a White House vacation to the Caribbean island of Saint Croix, currently lives in the suburbs of Washington and has plans to maintain a presence in both DC and his home state of Indiana.