SAN JOSE, Calif. — Fresh from calling his old boss “wrong” about the 2020 election, former Vice President Mike Pence will bring his fledgling campus speaking tour to Stanford University later this month, his first stop in a blue state.
Pence’s talk on Feb. 17, billed as “How to Save America from the Woke Left,” is expected to focus on “American freedom” and “traditional values,” among other topics. But while the invitation to a conservative speaker from the Stanford College Republicans has whipped up the traditional controversy on campus, the political world is more focused on whether Pence will talk about another hot topic: His increasingly icy relationship with former President Donald Trump.
Pence drew fire from Trump supporters during a talk Friday in Florida when he said Trump was “wrong” to assert that Pence had the right to overturn the 2020 election results on Jan. 6 last year, when armed insurrectionists invaded the U.S. Capitol. The comment marked his strongest rebuke of Trump’s unfounded claims.
