By Paul Steinhauser | 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年3月22日 美国东部时间凌晨5:00
独家– 前副总统迈克·彭斯表示，在共和党民粹主义兴起以及唐纳德·特朗普总统第二届政府中出现“大政府”倾向之际，他致力于防止共和党偏离其保守主义根基和原则，这是“我当下生命中的使命”。
彭斯还对那种认为特朗普自十年前首次赢得白宫以来，已彻底颠覆并改造了共和党这一普遍看法提出了异议。
“我坚信，尽管特朗普总统改变了共和党议程的某些方面，但他并未真正改变共和党，”彭斯在本周早些时候接受福克斯新闻数字频道独家采访时表示。新书《What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience》（暂译《保守派信仰：重新发现保守派良知》）将于数月后推出，该书旨在推动保守主义议程。
在他位于华盛顿特区的“推进美国自由”（Advancing American Freedom）政策与倡导组织的办公室（该组织近几个月来规模不断扩大），这位前副总统强调：“我们旨在成为保守派信仰的发声者，我们一直坚信这些信仰——财政责任、传统价值观、强大国防和美国领导地位。”
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2020年11月2日，唐纳德·特朗普总统与时任副总统迈克·彭斯在密歇根州特拉弗斯城的竞选集会上抵达。（Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images）
彭斯曾是国会议员和印第安纳州州长，在特朗普第一任期内担任副总统，但在2021年1月6日美国国会大厦袭击事件期间，他监督国会认证2020年选举结果时与前老板分道扬镳。
这位前副总统对特朗普政府在其第二届任期内取得的一些成就表示赞赏。
“我对本届政府在保卫我们边境方面取得的成就感到非常自豪。我很高兴政府拒绝了那些提议对高收入阶层增税的人，他们延长了所有特朗普-彭斯减税政策，”他强调道。
但彭斯对特朗普第二届政府“推行更多大政府项目和解决方案，对制药和信贷公司进行价格管控，干预私营企业，出现国有化趋势，以及在诸多方面边缘化生命权并忽视全国范围内邮寄堕胎药的泛滥问题”提出了批评。
“我希望总统的顾问们能提醒他，我们在四年任期内所遵循的保守主义议程……正是这些议程为美国家庭、经济带来了巨大繁荣，使美国在世界上更具影响力，”彭斯说。
但这位前副总统警告称：“当今的共和党正遭受一些‘-主义’的祸害。我们看到保护主义通过美国最高法院近期驳回的单边关税政策显现；我们看到一些孤立主义声音质疑我们对以色列的支持，甚至主张让乌克兰等盟友自生自灭。”
彭斯补充道：“我认为，党内的反犹主义声音在边缘地带也需要被正视，因为这些都不符合保守派的信仰。”
然而，许多共和党人会对彭斯关于“特朗普未改变共和党”的说法提出异议。
资深共和党策略家和传播者瑞安·威廉姆斯（Ryan Williams）告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“唐纳德·特朗普极大地改变了共和党的构成以及其关注的议题。”
威廉姆斯强调，特朗普“改变了共和党的选民基础，并将该党的价值观和发展轨迹带向了不同方向……这一趋势已无法逆转。”
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尽管彭斯并未试图让共和党回归特朗普之前的形象，但他表示自己的使命是提醒人们，共和党坚信“强大的国防、美国在世界的领导地位、自由市场经济、有限且对财政负责的政府、生命权和传统价值观”。
“正是这些原则指引了我们党半个多世纪的发展，并造福了美国人民，”他补充道。
彭斯希望“不仅看到本届政府回归保守主义的根源，还看到全国各地众议院、参议院和州议会的候选人都回归这些核心保守主义原则。”
共和党目前面临严峻的政治逆风：作为华盛顿特区的执政党，共和党在中期选举中通常会失去席位；经济通胀持续高企引发的担忧，以及特朗普支持率低迷（水下支持率），都加剧了政治困境。
但彭斯表示，推动保守主义纲领“不仅是美国繁荣和自由活力的必经之路，也是一条必胜之路。”
可能助力彭斯推进这一目标的是他的新书《What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience》（暂译《保守派信仰：重新发现保守派良知》），该书预计于今年6月出版。
彭斯在2024年共和党总统候选人提名竞选中，曾以传统保守主义为纲领，将共和党未来的发展定位为抵制党内“民粹主义”的崛起。当时他是众多挑战特朗普的候选人之一，但最终未能成功。
2023年6月5日，彭斯在爱荷华州安基尼正式宣布竞选总统。（Paul Steinhauser/Fox News）
作为80多年来首位与前上司对阵的竞选伙伴，彭斯曾积极在爱荷华州、新罕布什尔州和南卡罗来纳州等关键早期投票州开展竞选活动，但他的白宫梦从未真正起飞。
在民调支持率和筹款均遇困境后，他在启动竞选活动仅四个半月后就中止了参选。
“很明显，当今共和党中有一部分人正被脱离保守原则的民粹主义‘歌声’吸引。作为候选人，我曾对此直言不讳。我们的组织‘推进美国自由’一直致力于推动保守主义议程，未来也将继续如此，”彭斯指出。
2026年3月18日，前副总统迈克·彭斯创立的倡导组织“推进美国自由”在华盛顿特区的办公室。（Paul Steinhauser/Fox News）
当被问及未来是否会再次竞选白宫时，彭斯并未排除任何可能性。
“我要告诉你，我不是个长期规划者，”他回答道，“未来自有安排。”
但他补充道：“对我和我的家人来说，真正重要的是最初吸引我加入共和党的那些议题和价值观——即保守主义价值观。提醒我们的党，并向全国人民分享保守派信仰的内涵与为何这些信仰能令美国更强大、更繁荣，这才是我当下时代的使命。”
Paul Steinhauser是驻扎在摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，报道全国性的竞选活动。
Pence: Trump upended ‘some aspects’ of GOP agenda but ‘hasn’t really changed the Republican Party’
By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News
Published March 22, 2026 5:00am EDT
EXCLUSIVE– Former Vice President Mike Pence says his fight to keep the Republican Party from drifting too far from its conservative roots and principles, amid a rise of populism in the GOP and big government creep in President Donald Trump’s second administration, is “the calling of my life right now.”
And Pence takes issue with the conventional wisdom that Trump, since he first won the White House a decade ago, has upended and completely transformed the Republican Party.
“I’m convinced that while President Trump has changed some aspects of the agenda of the Republican Party, he hasn’t really changed the Republican Party,” Pence argued in an exclusive interview this past week with Fox News Digital, a couple of months ahead of the release of a new book promoting the conservative agenda.
Sitting in his Washington, D.C., office at Advancing American Freedom, his policy and advocacy organization that has been expanding in recent months, the former vice president emphasized, “We intend to be a voice for what conservatives believe and have always believed, and that’s fiscal responsibility, traditional values, strong defense and American leadership.”
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President Donald Trump arrives with then-Vice President Mike Pence at a campaign rally in Traverse City, Michigan, on Nov. 2, 2020.(Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Images)
Pence is a former congressman and Indiana governor who served as vice president during Trump’s first term in office before breaking with his boss amid the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as he oversaw congressional certification of the 2020 election results.
The former vice president gave a thumbs up to some of what Trump’s accomplished in his second term.
“I’ve been very proud of the fact of what this administration accomplished in securing our border. I was pleased that the administration turned aside from those that were talking about raising taxes on top marginal earners. They extended all the Trump-Pence tax cuts,” he highlighted.
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But Pence took issue with the second Trump administration for “embracing more big government programs and solutions, price controls on pharmaceuticals and credit companies, taking a position in private companies, the nationalization trend that has emerged, as well as marginalizing the right to life in so many ways and ignoring the scourge of mail order abortion pills around the country.”
“I am hopeful those advising the president are reminding him that it… was the conservative agenda that we governed on in our four years…that led to great prosperity for American families, for our economy and for strength in the world,” Pence said.
But the former vice president warned that “the Republican Party today is experiencing a scourge of some ‘-isms.’ We’ve seen protectionism show itself in unilateral tariffs that the Supreme Court of the United States recently turned back. We’ve seen some voices of isolationism that question our support for Israel, that would leave allies like Ukraine to fend for themselves.”
And Pence added, “I think that on the fringe and on the margins, voices of antisemitism in the party all need to be confronted, because none of those things represent what conservatives believe.”
But many Republicans would take issue with the former vice president’s argument that Trump hasn’t transformed the GOP.
“Donald Trump has tremendously altered the makeup of the Republican Party and the issues that it focuses on,” veteran GOP strategist and communicator Ryan Williams told Fox News Digital.
Williams emphasized that Trump “has altered the voter base of the Republican Party” and taken “the values and trajectory of this party in a different direction… It’s never going back to the way it was before.”
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While not aiming to return the party to its pre-Trump image, Pence said his mission is to remind people that Republicans believe in a strong national defense of American leadership in the world. We believe in free market economics and limited fiscally responsible government. We believe in the right to life and traditional values.”
“It’s been those principles that have guided our party for more than a half a century and have been to the betterment of the American people,” he added.
Pence said his hope is that “we’ll see not only this administration hew back to our roots of conservatism, but that we’ll see candidates for the House and Senate and statehouse around the country come back to those core conservative principles.”
Republicans are battling stiff political headwinds as the party in power in the nation’s capital traditionally loses seats in the midterm elections, and a rough political climate fueled by economic concerns amid persistent inflation and Trump’s underwater approval ratings.
But Pence said pushing a conservative platform is “not only a pathway toward American prosperity and the vitality of freedom, but it’s also a winning agenda.”
Likely boosting the former vice president’s push will be his new book, “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience,” which is expected to release in June.
Pence ran on a traditional conservative platform, framing the future of the Republican Party against what he called the rise of “populism” in the party, as he bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, as part of a large field that unsuccessfully challenged Trump.
Pence formally announced his run for president in Ankeny, Iowa, on June 5, 2023.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
While Pence, who became the first running mate in over 80 years to run against their former boss, regularly campaigned in the crucial early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his White House bid never took off.
Struggling in the polls and with fundraising, he suspended his campaign just four and a half months after launching it.
“It was clear to me that there’s a portion of the Republican Party today that’s being drawn aside by the siren song of populism unmoored to conservative principles. I spoke out against that as a candidate. Our foundation, Advancing American Freedom, has been championing that conservative agenda and will continue to,” Pence noted.
The offices of Advancing American Freedom, the policy and advocacy organization founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, in Washington, D.C., on March 18, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Asked if there’s another White House run in his future, Pence didn’t rule anything out.
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“I will tell you, I’m not a long-term planner,” he answered. “We’ll let the future take care of itself.”
But he added, “For me, for my family, it really is all about the issues and values that first drew me to the Republican Party. Those are conservative values. And reminding our party and sharing with people across the country what conservatives believe and why it will make America stronger and more prosperous is really the calling of my time.”
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.
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