His “energy and enthusiasm for Ronald Reagan’s values has inspired and will continue to inspire a new generation of young people,” Walker added in a statement.
Pence stepped down last month amid a tense relationship with former President Donald Trump following his certification of the Joe Biden election in the Senate and the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The final show is an effort to smooth his transition back to the high ranks of the conservative movement – a development that occurs when his former boss remains isolated in Florida on his Mar-a-Lago estate, awaiting a second impeachment trial in the Senate.
On Thursday, Pence announced that he would join the Heritage Foundation, another conservative institution, as a distinguished visiting fellow focused on public policy.
Presenting a podcast will not be an entirely new adventure for Pence, who is 61 years old. A former governor of Indiana, he spent a decade before his 2000 election to Congress as a prominent conservative radio personality in the Midwest – a profession he used to launch his political career. His YAF-sponsored program, which will target a younger audience than the listeners he attracted years ago on “The Mike Pence Show,” is similar to a deal the conservative youth group had with Reagan, then California’s governor. , when YAF served as a sponsor for his daily radio comments in the mid 1970s.
“The vice president will certainly be focused on the conservative achievements of the past four years and projecting those achievements, taking lessons learned and protecting them forward,” said a spokesman for Pence.
Pence is also eyeing a possible book deal and plans to create a new fundraising committee that would serve as his primary channel for Republican donors while working to boost Republican House and Senate candidates in the middle elections. of 2022 and weighs a future presidential candidacy of his authorship in 2024.
The former vice president, who recently returned from vacation after the White House to the Caribbean island of Saint Croix, is currently living in the suburbs of Washington with plans to maintain a presence in DC and in his home state, Indiana, in the future.