US Vice President Mike Pence has described a New York Times<br /> article suggesting he is considering running for president in 2020 as “disgraceful and offensive”.<br /><br />The article claims some Republicans are moving to form a shadow campaign as though President Donald Trump were not involved. <br /><br />In a rare statement reacting to a newspaper article, Pence used social media to say the allegations are false and his entire team was focused on advancing Trump’s agenda and seeing him re-elected in 2020.<br /><br />My statement regarding the absurd NYtimes article. pic.twitter.com/htvYSbS2dy— Vice President Pence (VP) August 6, 2017<br /><br />The report in the the widely respected New York Times said Pence had not only kept a full political calendar but had also created his own independent power base, including a political fund-raising group called the “ Great American Committee.<br /><br />It alleged the vice president had shrugged off warning from some high-profile Republicans that such a committee would great speculation about his intentions.<br /><br />To date Pence has presented himself as a firm Trump loyalist with little distinction between his public statements and the policies of the president.<br /><br />But the president is under growing pressure over legislative failures, and investigations into links between his aides and family members and Russia.<br />
