DES MOINES, Iowa – Former Vice President Mike Pence, making his first visit to Iowa since the end of the Trump administration, took aim at President Biden and spotlighted his social conservative credentials as he addressed a major gathering of Christian conservatives in the state whose caucuses for half a century have led off the presidential nominating calendar.
“I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican in that order,” Pence said on Friday, repeating a well-used line as he addressed the 10th annual Family Leadership Summit, which is hosted by the Family Leader, a top, Iowa-based social conservative organization of White evangelicals.
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“To turn this country around, we need to turn the American people back to God, back to one nation under God,” Pence told the crowd of some 1,200 people at a convention center in downtown Des Moines, Iowa’s capital and largest city.