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Former Vice President Mike Pence scrutinized President Joe Biden’s promise to codify Roe v. Wade on Wednesday, predicting that Republicans are going to prevent Biden’s agenda by taking back both chambers of Congress.
“I’ve got a news flash for Joe Biden,” Pence said while speaking at a Heritage event Wednesday. “On January 22, 2023, we’re going to have pro-life majorities in the House and the Senate, and we’re going to be taking the case for life to every state in America.”
Biden vowed Tuesday to codify Roe v. Wade as his first piece of legislation if Democrats take the House and Senate in the midterms.
“The first bill I will send to the Congress will be to codify Roe v. Wade. And when Congress passes it, I’ll sign it in January, 50 years after Roe was first decided the law of the land,” Biden said. (RELATED: Biden Promises To Codify Roe V. Wade If Democrats Win Midterms)
Pence blasted Biden’s promise, saying, “I think they’re literally grasping at straws for anything at this point in the midterm elections.”
He stressed that the Republican agenda “all begins with life” and “to restore American culture, we must restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law in every state in the country.”
He predicted that the U.S. is “20 days away from the beginning of a great American comeback” and that “we will have a majority in the House, we will have a majority in the Senate, and we will get a record number of conservative governors all across America.”
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After a Republican victory, “the path ahead is not clearly defined” between traditional conservatives of the Reagan era versus “energetic” populism, Pence said.
“We don’t have to choose between one at the expense of another,” Pence continued.
“We need to chart a course that doesn’t veer off too far in either direction,” he added, saying, “the movement and the party that it animates must remain the movement of a strong national defense, limited government, and traditional moral values and life.”
The former vice president also outlined his vision for what Republicans must tackle after 2022, focusing on promoting pro-life policies, pushing for school choice, restoring the economy, securing the border and ending “the assault on women’s sports.”
On Ukraine, Pence said the U.S. “must continue to provide Ukraine with the resources to defend themselves” and highlighted that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not try to redraw territorial lines under the Trump-Pence administration.
He warned against Republicans who are pursuing an isolationist agenda, saying, “appeasement has never worked, ever in history. Now more than ever, we need a conservative movement committed to America’s role as leader of the free world as a vanguard of American values.”