LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Former Vice President Mike Pence and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley will have campaign fundraisers in Southern California Thursday, one day after debating five other candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in Simi Valley.
Pence will deliver a “fireside chat” followed by a reception at the Lost World Estate in Anaheim. Tickets are $500 to $6,600, the latter based on the $3,300 donation limit to a presidential candidate in the primary and general election campaigns.
Haley will conduct a fundraiser in Beverly Hills, an aide told City News Service without providing further details.
During Wednesday’s debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Haley, a former South Carolina governor, called for “cutting taxes for Middle America,” collapsing tax brackets and focusing “on what it takes to get more cash in the pockets of workers.”
Pence said as president he would repeal the Green New Deal and “get rid of the mandates and subsidies that are driving American gasoline automotive manufacturing into the graveyard.”
The Green New Deal has not been approved by Congress and is a proposal to address climate change. An attempt to pass Green New Deal legislation in 2019 was approved by the House of Representatives, but failed in the Senate.
Pence said if elected “it’s my intention to make the federal government smaller by returning to the states those resources and programs that are rightfully theirs under 10th Amendment of the Constitution. That means all Obamacare funding, all housing funding, all HHS funding, all of it goes back to the states. We’ll shut down the federal Department of Education. We’ll allow states to innovate. We’re going to revive federalism.”
Pence also said he would ask Congress “to pass a federal expedited death penalty for anyone involved in a mass shooting so that they will meet their fate in months, not years.”