During a town hall with NewsNation on Wednesday, 2024 Republican presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence stated that he disagreed with his 2024 rival former President Donald Trump on Afghanistan. Pence said that he wanted to follow the advice of military commanders to leave a couple thousand troops there and argued, "if we'd have had a modicum of troops there, I don't believe the Taliban would have ever moved, and Afghanistan would be a very different place today."