Michael Richard Pence is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under President Donald Trump during the first administration. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017,and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.
Philippe I. Reines is an American political consultant. He joined the Department of State as a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton when she became United States Secretary of State in January 2009,and was promoted to deputy assistant secretary of state for strategic communications in 2010.
James Nicholas Ayers is an American political strategist and consultant who served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Mike Pence between July 2017 and January 2019. He had previously served as national chairman for Pence's vice-presidential campaign in 2016,as well as executive director of the Republican Governors Association from 2007 to 2010.
Joshua Ryan Henry Earnest is an American political advisor who served as White House press secretary under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017. He was Obama's third Press Secretary and the 29th to hold the position. He succeeded Jay Carney as Obama's press secretary,in 2014,and was succeeded by President Donald Trump's first presidential press secretary,Sean Spicer. He is Executive Vice President of Communications and Advertising for United Airlines.
Businessman Donald Trump of New York,the 2016 Republican nominee for President of the United States,considered several prominent Republicans and other individuals before selecting Governor Mike Pence of Indiana as his running mate on July 15,2016. Pence formally won the vice presidential nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention on July 19. The Trump–Pence ticket would go on to defeat the Clinton–Kaine ticket in the 2016 presidential election but ultimately lost to the Biden–Harris ticket in 2020.
The first presidential transition of Donald Trump began when he won the United States presidential election on November 8,2016,and became the president-elect. The transition overrode the planned presidential transition of Hillary Clinton. Trump was formally elected by the Electoral College on December 19,2016. The transition was formerly led by Chris Christie until he and a number of his supporters were replaced or demoted on November 11. The results were certified by a joint session of Congress on January 6,2017,and the transition ended when Trump was inaugurated on January 20,2017.
Hope Charlotte Hicks is an American public relations executive and political advisor who served in President Donald Trump’s administration from 2017 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021. She served as White House director of strategic communications from January to September 2017,as White House communications director from 2017 to 2018,and returned to serve as a counselor to the president from 2020 to 2021.
The 2018 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 6,2018,along with other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly lost re-election to a second term to Republican Mike Braun by a 6% margin. This was the second consecutive election for this seat where the incumbent was defeated and/or the seat flipped parties.
Boris Epshteyn is a Russian-American Republican political strategist,attorney,and investment banker. He was a strategic advisor on Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign and has remained a close advisor to Trump in his inter-presidency. He was the chief political commentator at Sinclair Broadcast Group until December 2019. He was also a senior advisor to Trump's 2016 campaign for President of the United States,and previously worked on John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. Following Trump's election,he was named director of communications for the Presidential Inaugural Committee,and then assistant communications director for surrogate operations in the White House Office,until he resigned in March 2017. He was a member of a team of Trump lawyers who sought to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election. In April 2024,Epshteyn was indicted in Arizona for his alleged in role in the fake elector plot for the state.
Presidential primaries and caucuses of the Republican Party took place in many U.S. states,the District of Columbia,and five U.S. territories from February 3 to August 11,2020,to elect most of the 2,550 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention. Delegates to the national convention in other states were elected by the respective state party organizations. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election,and selected Mike Pence as the vice-presidential nominee.
Jason Miller is an American communications strategist,political adviser and CEO,best known as the chief spokesman for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign and transition of Donald Trump. He was a senior adviser to the Trump 2020 re-election campaign. From 2010 through 2016,Miller was a partner and executive vice-president at Jamestown Associates. He was initially announced as the incoming White House Communications Director during the presidential transition,though he withdrew shortly after amidst news of an extramarital relationship with a staffer who joined the 2016 campaign two months before the election.
Marc T. Short is an American political advisor who served as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence. Prior to holding this role,Short was the director of legislative affairs at the White House from 2017 to 2018. He became chief of staff for Pence in March 2019. He was a senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs,a CNN contributor,chief of staff to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison,and the House Republican Conference. He was president of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce from 2011 to 2016. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press of NBC News.
Donald Trump,a member of the Republican Party,sought re-election in the 2020 United States presidential election. He was inaugurated as president of the United States on January 20,2017,and filed for re-election with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on the same day.
Gregory Joseph Pence is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 6th congressional district since 2019. The district serves much of east-central Indiana,including Pence's hometown of Columbus,as well as Greenfield,Richmond,Shelbyville,and the southern third of Indianapolis. A member of the Republican Party,he is the older brother of former U.S. vice president Mike Pence,who represented the district from 2001 to 2013.
Alyssa Farah Griffin is an American political strategist and television personality. She was the White House director of strategic communications and Assistant to the President in 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump. In addition to appearing on CNN as a commentator,she is a co-host of the talk show The View,for which she received a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award.
Huyen "Steven" Cheung is an American political advisor serving as President-elect Donald Trump's campaign spokesman in the 2024 United States presidential election. He previously worked in Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns. He also worked in communications for the sports organization Ultimate Fighting Championship based in Las Vegas,Nevada.
This is a list of endorsements for declared or potential candidates in the Republican primaries for the 2024 United States presidential election.
