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The 63-year-old, who turns 64 on Wednesday, is challenging his former boss Trump in the competition for the party’s nomination. Pence has been considering a presidential bid for some time.

Polls on the Republican field of candidates currently see the former governor of the US state of Indiana in third place, a long way behind Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis. According to the specialist website FiveThirtyEight, the evangelical Christian and anti-abortion opponent currently has an average of 5.4 percent in the survey. Trump comes to around 54 percent and DeSantis to around 21 percent.

Pence was a loyal deputy to Trump from 2017 to 2021 in the White House. The storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, during which rampaging Trump supporters shouted “Hang Mike Pence”, among other things, led to a break between the two Republicans.

At the time, Pence refused to stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 presidential election, as requested by Trump. He became the target of angry attacks by Trump.

“His reckless words put my family and everyone in the Capitol in danger that day,” Pence said of Trump in March. “And I know history will hold Donald Trump accountable.”

Trump announced last November that he wanted to retake the White House in the November 2024 presidential election. In the months that followed, former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, African-American Senator Tim Scott, former governor of the southern state of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson, and then, in May, Florida governor DeSantis, all joined.

The Republican primaries for the November 2024 presidential election will begin early next year, traditionally starting in the US state of Iowa in the Midwest. The Republican primary winner will challenge President Biden, who is running for re-election.

Blinken added in a speech to the “AIPAC” organization that “defense systems are being developed with Israel to enable it to defend itself, and we will continue to work towards Israel’s integration in the region,” stressing that the security of the Middle East region serves the interests of the United States.

Blinken pointed out that the two-state solution is necessary to preserve Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state, calling for de-escalation, strengthening security cooperation, and improving life for the Palestinian people.

He continued, “The United States has a real national security interest in establishing normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. We can and must play a full role in moving forward on this issue, but we have no illusions as to whether this can be done quickly or easily.”

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said Monday that the agency has been unable to conduct JCPOA verification and monitoring activities related to production and inventory of centrifuges, rotors, bellows, heavy water and uranium ore concentrate for two and a quarter years in Iran.

Grossi pointed out during a meeting with delegates of 35 countries that are members of the IAEA’s Board of Governors that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium has risen by more than a quarter in three months.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said last week that Iran had significantly increased its stockpile of enriched uranium in recent months.

The agency stated, in a report, that “Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium exceeded by more than 23 times the limit allowed under the 2015 agreement between Tehran and the major powers, bringing Iran’s total stockpile of enriched uranium on May 13 to an estimated 4,744.5 kilograms, in While the permissible limit in the agreement is 202.8 kilograms.

As if Monday with the number games for the SPÖ presidency wasn’t bizarre enough. And perhaps the satirical portal “Die Tagespresse” no longer seemed able to surpass the real social democracy satirically. Anyway, at 5:15 p.m. she did via Twitter and their own website announced their own end, the setting of the “daily press”. However, the brief reaction from founder Fritz Jergitsch might indicate that this might not be meant quite so seriously.