Ex-Vice Pence challenges Trump with rival rally in Arizona

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Ex-Vice Pence challenges Trump with rival rally in Arizona
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Donald Trump and his former vice president, Mike Spencer, have held rival rallies in the race for Republican candidates hoping to be the governor of the state of Arizona.

Trump spoke at an event for Kari Lake, who supports his false claims of election fraud, while Mr. Pence supports her opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson.

Trump and Pence could both run for the US presidency in 2024. They clashed with each other after Trump accused Trump of failing to block President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.

Trump claimed the election was stolen and wanted his vice president to refuse to confirm the election result, but Pence decided it would be illegal.

During the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, when a crowd of his supporters attacked Congress in an attempt to overturn the result, Trump tweeted that Mr. Pence "did not have the courage to do what needed to be done to protect our country." .

The unrest is currently being investigated by a congressional investigation, which heard Thursday night that Mr. Trump had watched events taking place on TV at the White House, ignoring his children and aides who "begged" him to rebuke the crowd.

At her rally Friday in the central Arizona city of Prescott Valley, Ms. Lake, a former television news reporter, told supporters that "manipulated elections" would no longer be accepted.

She was attended on stage by Mr. Trump, who told the crowd that "elections were manipulated and stolen and now our country is being systematically destroyed."

He did not criticize Mr. Trump or refer to election controversy during his speech. However, he later said in a Twitter post that "if the Republican Party allows itself to be consumed by yesterday's complaints, we will lose."


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