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On June 18, 2021, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence spoke at a religious conference in Orlando, Florida, where he was heckled by some audience members who shouted traitor. The shouts could be heard in this video posted by Forbes reporter Andrew Solender: And I want to thank my friend [Faith and Freedom Coalition Chair] Ralph Reed for those overly generous words. I'm deeply humbled by them, Pence said, as the shouts of traitor started to ring out. Pence continued, despite the interruption: Ralph Reed knows me well enough to know the introduction I prefer is a little bit shorter. I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order, and I am honored to stand before you today. The heckling was in turn drowned out by cheers. Pence previously drew the intense anger of supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump when he carried out his vice presidential duties on Jan. 6. 2021, and certified the electoral win of Trump's rival, President Joe Biden. In the ensuing deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Trump supporters erected a makeshift gallows and chanted hang Mike Pence while they rampaged inside the building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOvT3j5G-RkThe attack on the Capitol was incited by false claims by Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election was stolen by a mass-scale fraud conspiracy, even though no evidence of such a conspiracy was ever presented.
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