新罕布什尔州塞勒姆前副总统迈克·彭斯和生物技术企业家维韦克·拉马斯瓦米已经成为2024年竞选活动的快速陪衬者，他们在劳动节那天参加了在新罕布什尔州塞勒姆举行的同一个野餐会，这是他们自年以来第一次在同一个地方在上个月的辩论中辩论.
但彭斯在发表讲话后不久就溜了出来，两人没有见面，尽管彼此相距不到20英尺。
彭斯和拉马斯瓦米是密尔沃基共和党第一场辩论中发言最多的两位候选人，部分原因是他们多次发生冲突，在此后的近两周内，他们继续在竞选活动和媒体露面中相互批评。
拉马斯瓦米质疑彭斯对2020年选举结果的认证，坚称副总统本可以要求进行几项选举改革，并且只在改革实施的条件下认证选举结果-彭斯明确拒绝了这一观点。
与此同时，彭斯抨击拉马斯瓦米在外交政策、选举政策和遗产税政策上“完全错误”。拉马斯瓦米反过来说，彭斯歪曲了他的立场。
2023年8月16日，前副总统迈克·彭斯在印第安纳波利斯的印第安纳会议中心举行的NCSL立法峰会上发表讲话。2024年共和党总统候选人Vivek Ramaswamy在维多利亚市政厅参加竞选活动
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拉马斯瓦米在周一的活动中被问及彭斯对他的批评时，部分表示:“他是个好人，我希望他生活顺利....我认为，事实上，我们正在党内就新保守主义外交政策机构和新的、毫无歉意的民族主义愿景之间的分歧进行真正的辩论，这很好。我很高兴我们已经烟消云散了。我认为我们会说服很多人。”
他们也给予了简短的赞美。拉马斯瓦米称彭斯为“有信仰的人”，彭斯称拉马斯瓦米为“有家室的好男人”。辩论结束时，他们迅速握了握手。
前阿肯色州州长阿萨·哈钦森(Asa Hutchinson)、前共和党众议员威尔·赫德(Will Hurd，R-Texas)和罗德岛州克兰斯顿(Cranston，Rhode Island)前市长史蒂夫·拉菲(Steve Laffey)也在塞勒姆共和党城镇委员会(Salem Republican Town Committee)的年度劳动节野餐会上与选民见面，因为距离投票还有几个月的时间，总统候选人将在全国第一个初选州降落。
新罕布什尔州州长克里斯·苏努努(Chris Sununu)也向与会者发表了讲话，他今年早些时候排除了竞选共和党总统候选人提名的可能性，但自那以来一直在该州为候选人创造机会。
彭斯不是唯一一个追求这位38岁的政治局外人的共和党人。前驻联合国大使、南卡罗莱纳州州长妮基·黑利将于周二返回新罕布什尔州，他在辩论中指出拉马斯瓦米缺乏经验后，继续称他在外交政策上“幼稚”。
Pence, Ramaswamy opt out of Labor Day showdown in New Hampshire
SALEM, N.H. --Former Vice President Mike Pence and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who have become fast foils on the 2024 campaign trail, attended the same picnic in Salem, New Hampshire, on Labor Day, their first time in the same space sincesparring at last month's debate.
But Pence slipped out shortly after making his remarks and the two did not meet, despite coming within 20 feet or so of each other.
Pence and Ramaswamy, the two candidates who spoke the most on the first Republican debate stage in Milwaukee, due in part to their repeated clashes, have continued to criticize each other on the campaign trail and in media appearances in the nearly two weeks since.
Ramaswamy has questioned Pence for certifying the 2020 election results, insisting that the vice president could have asked for several election reforms, and only certify the election results on the condition reforms were enacted -- a notion Pence unequivocally rejects.
Pence, meanwhile, has blasted Ramaswamy as, he says, "just wrong" -- on foreign policy, election policy and inheritance tax policy. Ramaswamy, in turn, has said Pence is misrepresenting his positions.
Ramaswamy, asked at Monday's event about Pence's critical view of him, said in part: "He's a good guy and I wish him well in his life .... I think that the fact that we're having real debates in this party about the division between a neoconservative foreign policy establishment and a new, unapologetically nationalistic vision of how we advance American interest -- that's good. I'm glad we've smoked that out. And I think that we're going to persuade many people."
They've offered brief compliments, too. Ramaswamy has called Pence "a man of faith" and Pence has called Ramaswamy "a good family man." They shared a quick handshake at the end of the debate.
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, and Steve Laffey, the former mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, also spoke and met with voters at the Salem Republican Town Committee’s annual Labor Day picnic, as presidential candidates descend on the first-in-the-nation primary state with months to go until votes are cast.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who ruled out running for the Republican presidential nomination earlier this year but has played kingmaker to candidates in his state since, also addressed attendees.
Pence isn't the only Republican going after the 38-year-old political outsider. Former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who returns to New Hampshire on Tuesday, continues to call Ramaswamy "naive" on foreign policy after calling out his lack on experience at the debate.
