Trump Takes On Pence And The Electoral Process

By Emanuel Eisen | Saturday, 23 July 2022 05:15 AM
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Trump Takes On Pence And The Electoral Process

Former President Donald Trump ripped into the narrative of Democrats and some Republicans that former Vice President Mike Pence had no option regarding approving the electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election.

''Mike Pence told me, and everybody else, there was nothing he could do about the Electoral Vote Count — it was etched in stone,'' Trump said in a statement on Thursday. ''But if so, how come the Democrats and RINOs are working so hard to make sure there is nothing a VP can do?''

According to Just the News, a bipartisan group of senators is working on revisioning the Electoral Count Reform Act that would further restrict state electors and guarantee that a sitting Vice President cannot change or reject election results.

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The former President and some of his allies have been accused of trying to set up "alternate electors" to vote for him and later attempting to have then-Vice President Pence not permit the election.

''This was a major event, because everybody ganged up and said that Mike had no choice, he could not send the slates back to the States (which is all I suggested he do) for possible retabulation and correction based on largescale Voter Fraud and Irregularities,'' Trump continued.

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In comments delivered last month at the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump continued to slam Pence for dismissing the former President's requests that he refused to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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He called Pence a ''human conveyor belt'' for stating that he was constitutionally directed to oversee the certification and could not reject electoral votes because of Trump's claims of voter fraud.

''Mike Pence had a chance to be great,'' Trump said at the time. ''He had a chance to be, frankly, historic. But just like [former Attorney General] Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people, Mike — and I say it sadly because I like him — but Mike did not have the courage to act.''

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Pence has repeatedly said he did not have the power to drop the electoral votes and his break with Trump on the issue has been an ongoing source of friction between them.

''President Trump is wrong,'' the former vice president said in February, according to The Hill. ''I had no right to overturn the election.''

At its public hearing on Thursday, the House Jan. 6 committee sought to show how Trump and his supporters pressured Pence to stop the certification of the election and praised the former vice president for refusing to do so.

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