2024 Watch: Pence heading back to first presidential primary state

EXCLUSIVE – Former Vice President Mike Pence returns next month to New Hampshire, the state that for a century has held the first primary in the race for the White House.

Pence will headline a fundraising event for the New Hampshire Senate Republicans on Wednesday, Dec. 8. Word of the former vice president’s appearance at the gathering, which will take place in Manchester, New Hampshire, was shared first with Fox News on Sunday. Pence is expected to serve as the main attraction for at least one other event while he is in the Granite State.

The trip will be the former vice president’s second to New Hampshire this year. Pence in June keynoted the Hillsborough County GOP’s Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner, giving a well-received speech which was interrupted numerous times by standing ovations.

PENCE, AT INFLUENTIAL GOP GATHERING, PLEDGES REPUBLICANS WILL WIN WHITE HOUSE IN 2024

The former vice president earlier this month made his second visit this year to Iowa, the state whose caucuses for half a century have kicked off the presidential nominating calendar. Pence also stopped this spring in South Carolina, which votes third in the GOP primary and caucus calendar, and earlier this month in Nevada, which holds the fourth contest.

The trips to the early voting presidential primary and caucus states will fuel further speculation that Pence is gearing up towards a 2024 GOP White House run as he crisscrosses the country to help fellow Republicans running in the 2022 elections.

The fundraiser in New Hampshire will help bring in campaign cash for Republicans as they build resources to hold their 14-10 majority in the New Hampshire Senate in next year’s contests. Republicans, thanks in part to GOP Gov. Chris Sununu’s landslide reelection victory in 2020, won back control of both houses of the state legislature, which they had lost in the 2018 elections.

Pence’s one-time boss, former President Donald Trump, repeatedly flirts with making another White House run in 2024. But the possibility of another bid by Trump, who remains very popular with Republican voters and continues to hold great sway over GOP politicians, does not appear to be deterring Pence from potentially launching a campaign of his own.

PENCE, IN IOWA, CHARGES BIDEN’S TRYING TO TURN AMERICA INTO ‘SECULAR WELFARE STATE’

While the former vice president remains mum in public about his political plans, he vowed during a speech earlier this month at the Republican Jewish Coalition’ annual leadership meeting that “we’re going to win back this country in 2024.” 

While Pence often praises the former president and showcases the accomplishments of the Trump-Pence administration, he’s spotlighted his differences with his old boss.

Pence, in a speech Tuesday night in Phoenix, Arizona at…