After battling it out at the Iowa caucuses, the 2024 Republican presidential field has dropped to five contenders, and pro-LGBTQ+ candidates are in short supply. Donald Trump won by a landslide at the Iowa Republican caucuses on Monday (15 January), cementing his status as frontrunner in the race. Florida governor Ron DeSantis edged out former
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US vice president Mike Pence visits Rock Springs Church to campaign for GOP Senate candidates on 4 January 2021 in Milner, Georgia. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images) Former vice president Mike Pence is already winning support from prominent Republican voices as he courts the religious right ahead of the 2024 election. With the dust still settling
Vice president Mike Pence. (Getty/J. Scott Applewhite) Indiana, the home-state of vice-president Mike Pence, could be next in line to ban traumatising conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in a groundbreaking move. JD Ford and Sue Errington, two Indiana Democrats, have introduced bills that would outlaw the dangerous practice in the state. If passed, the bills would
US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen. (Mark Wilson/Getty) The infamously anti-LGBT+ where Karen Pence is a teacher was “handed almost $1 million in federal funds” intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Karen Pence, the wife of US Vice President Mike Pence, teaches art at the conservative Immanuel Christian School in Virginia.
All of the debates of the 2020 presidential election are officially behind us, as are a number of town hall events. On Oct. 22, President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, and former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, faced off in a debate for the second and final time. Trump and Biden first faced each other
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence give a thumbs up after speaking on the first day of the Republican National Convention (Chris Carlson-Pool/Getty) An LGBT+ Republican group has endorsed 12 politicians who have long track records of opposing LGBT+ rights. The Log Cabin Republicans, which describes itself as “the nation’s original and largest
Pete Buttigieg has revealed how he channeled his “inner Mike Pence” while helping Kamala Harris prepare for the vice-presidential debate. In a strange twist of fate, the gay former presidential candidate has been role-playing as Pence in mock debates with Harris to help her practise. Appearing in an MNBC segment ahead of the big showdown
Kamala Harris suffered through Mike Pence’s constant interruptions with grace at the vice presidential debate. (CNN) Kamala Harris telling Mike Pence “I’m speaking, Mr Vice President” during Wednesday night’s (October 7) debate has, of course, spawned a legion of memes. The vice presidential debate saw Harris and Pence spar through pandemic-mandated Plexiglass over COVID-19, healthcare
As we approach the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign cycle, incumbent vice president Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris will soon take the stage for their first and only vice presidential debate before the election, which takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 3 and is already underway in some states. The debate, which is set for Wednesday,
Vice President Mike Pence. (Joshua Roberts/Getty) Activists have demanded that the next debate moderator grill Mike Pence on the Trump administration’s homophobia and transphobia, after LGBT+ rights went unmentioned during the first presidential debate. LGBT+ issues were sidelined in the presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on Tuesday (September 29). The messy and
Vice President Mike Pence arrives at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Vice president Mike Pence has reacted pretty much exactly as you’d expect to the Supreme Court ruling that you can’t just fire people for being gay anymore. Pence, known for his hardline anti-LGBT+
Don Lemon sighed in frustration, and Mike Pence’s excuses were “ridiculous”. (CNN/ YouTube) CNN host Don Lemon has slammed US vice president and homophobic Mike Pence for disregarding a hospital’s mask-wearing policy while meeting coronavirus patients. Pence, who is taking a break from his long career of fomenting anti-LGBT+ hatred to lead the White House efforts to tackle
Mike Pence speaks at a White House press conference on February 29, 2020 (Alex Wong/Getty) Mike Pence has defended his role in the HIV outbreak that occurred under his watch as Indiana governor, saying that he is “proud” of the work he did. In 2014-15 the state of Indiana experienced “the largest concentrated outbreak of
Eduardo Bolsonaro at Donald Trump’s resort Mar-a-Lago in 2019. (Patrick McMullan/ Getty) Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is almost as homophobic as his father Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, has been invited by US conservatives to speak at one Washington DC’s biggest political events. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) describes itself as “the largest and most influential