Pence's Former National Security Adviser Endorses Trump

Retired Gen. Keith Kellogg:

• Kellogg would back former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 matchup with his former boss.
• "Sometimes, you have to pick the lane you're gonna run with," Kellogg told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday when asked about a possible contest between Trump and Pence. "I've always been a Trump guy."

Dual Speeches

• Trump also returned to Washington to speak for the first time in more than a year, telling a crowd that the United States needs to place more emphasis on public safety amid rising crime, drug use, and homelessness.
• Americans "don't have safety" and "do not have freedom" right now, Trump said during a speech at the America First Policy Institute's America First Agenda Summit.
   
  Former Vice President Mike Pence's national security adviser, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, said he would back former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 matchup with his former boss.
  
  "Sometimes, you have to pick the lane you're gonna run with," Kellogg told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday when asked about a possible contest between Trump and Pence.
  
  Of the relationship between Trump and Pence, "We tried to bring him in tight," Kellogg said in reference to Pence.
  
  "It's not because we haven't reached out to him." Pence advisers "Like Marc Short," Kellogg added in the interview, "Have pulled away from the Trump team," referring to the former vice president's chief of staff.
  
  Neither Pence nor Trump have declared their candidacies for president.
  
  While Trump has strongly suggested that he might run again, there is growing speculation about a Pence 2024 candidacy as he continues to deliver speeches, including one to a conference of young conservatives in Washington on Tuesday.
  
  During the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump issued a rare critical comment about Pence for taking part in the congressional certification of the 2020 election.  

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