Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Monday filed paperwork to join an increasingly crowded field of Republican candidates vying for the party's 2024 presidential nomination.His entrance into the race pits him against former President Donald Trump, the current front-runner, whom he served in the White House for four years through 2021.Since leaving office, however, the 63-year-old Pence has distanced himself from Trump, making his most scathing comments in March about the former president's role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.He said Trump's encouragement of rioters a…READ FULL ARTICLE