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Mike Pence has suspended his campaign to become the Republican nominee for US president. Photograph: Jordan Gale/The New York TimesMr Pence announced at an event held by the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas on Saturday that he was dropping out of the race, in which he has been lagging, along with others, far behind front-runner Mr Trump.
As he made the announcement, with a trademark absence of visible emotion, there was a collective gasp among the audience gathered at the event, which was expecting to hear rallying remarks as he continued his campaign. That ended, though, when Mr Pence made the definitive move that caused an irreparable breach between him and Mr Trump. The then vice-president refused to go along with exhortations from Mr Trump that he decline, in his role as president of the US Senate, to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory over Mr Trump.
Mr Pence touted his record in Congress and as Indiana governor, during which he supported legislation against abortion and expanded government spending, and repeated ideas from his campaign video released hours earlier including addressing inflation, the national debt and issues at the US-Mexico border.
“I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” Mr Pence said at his launch, repeating a frequently used phrase.
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