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		</div><p>US vice president Mike Pence has hit back after a news report suggested he is laying groundwork for a possible presidential bid in 2020 if President Donald Trump does not run.</p>
<p>In a statement released by the White House, Mr Pence said today&#8217;s story in The New York Times &#8220;is disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and our entire team&#8221;. He added: &#8220;The allegations in this article are categorically false.&#8221;</p>
<p>The formal rebuttal of a news report by the vice president was an unusual move.<br />
In it, Mr Pence also said his team will &#8220;focus all our efforts to advance the president&#8217;s agenda and see him re-elected in 2020&#8221;.</p>
<p>The report details efforts of several Republicans looking ahead to 2020, calling it a &#8220;shadow campaign&#8221;.<br />
It notes Mr Pence&#8217;s political schedule and active fundraising, though it also says unnamed advisers have signalled that he would only run if Mr Trump does not.</p>
<p>The article noted Mr Pence has set up a fundraising committee. Called the Great America Committee, it can accept cheques of up to 5,000 dollars from individual donors. Mr Pence raised about one million dollars at a Washington fundraiser last month, attended by dozens of politicians and featuring remarks from White House adviser Ivanka Trump.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has not suggested he will not seek a second term. But his first six months in office have been turbulent, marked by staff infighting, legislative struggles and a series of investigations.<br />
White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway also dismissed the report and said Mr Pence is readying to run in 2020 &#8220;for re-election as vice president&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Vice President Pence is a very loyal, very dutiful, but also incredibly effective vice president, and active vice president, with this president,&#8221; said Ms Conway on ABC&#8217;s This Week. &#8221;He is a peer to the president in the West Wing.&#8221; New York Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said in an emailed statement: &#8220;We are confident in the accuracy of our reporting and will let the story speak for itself.&#8221;</p>
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