Exclusive — Mike Pence: ‘Like Every 80-Year-Old,’ Joe Biden Has ‘Lost a Step’

Asked about this during his interview with Breitbart News, Pence reiterated his views and his contrast with Trump on several issues like abortion, the Russian war in Ukraine, and entitlement reform.

“What I said is anyone who chooses themselves over the Constitution should never be President of the United States—and anyone who asks someone to put themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again,” Pence said. “I thought it was important today to make the case about our differences in the past and our policy differences about the direction of the party and the country in the future. As I said, with regard to—I know that I did my duty on Jan. 6, upholding the requirements of the Constitution of the United States, but I thought because the president as recently as last week has said on a national stage that he thought I made a mistake that it was important to say he was wrong then and he’s wrong now. But I also made clear I had hoped he would come around. Based on his public statements even in the last week he hasn’t. I do hold the view unapologetically that anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States. I still hope the president comes around. We’ll still have our differences, whether it be American leadership in the world, restoring fiscal responsibility, standing unapologetically for the cause of the right to life—and we’ll have that debate—but to me it was important today that we lay out the case for what we did upholding our oaths to the Constitution of the United States and made it clear regardless of what the president said on that fateful day or regardless of whatever he has said since that I did do my duty under the Constitution.”

However, despite some in the media saying this means Pence was ruling out Trump should the latter win the nomination, Pence told Breitbart News he will in fact support the GOP nominee for president whoever it is, though he obviously hopes it is him, and he says he is confident GOP voters will select a new leader for the future.