Donald Trump fired back at Mike Pence following the former Vice President’s pointed rebuke of the notion that he could have rejected the electoral votes of some states during the 2020 presidential election.
Pence broke with former President during a Friday Federalist Society event.
“There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress, I possessed unilateral authority to reject Electoral College votes. And I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to ‘overturn the election,’” Pence said.
“President Trump is wrong,” he said in a direct denunciation. “I did not have the right to reverse the election.”
MIKE PENCE: “President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The American people are the only ones who have the right to elect the president. And frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.” pic.twitter.com/7feWD75Fq1
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) February 4, 2022
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Pence/Trump Feud Heats Up
Mike Pence didn’t hold back with his statement in any fashion, leaving many to wonder if this was an initial salvo in his attempt to run for the Republican nomination for President in 2024.
“The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone,” he continued. “Frankly, there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
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Pence’s next comments brought him a round of applause from the attendees at the Federalist Society event.
“Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election,” he declared. “And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.”
Pence says Jan 6 was a “dark day” and reminds that the congress was reconvened to certify the election. Applause by the Fed Society crowd.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 4, 2022
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Trump Fires Back
Ex-President Donald Trump responded to Mike Pence in typical style, issuing an indelicate statement filled with names calling and insisting that the 2020 election had been stolen.
“Just saw Mike Pence’s statement on the fact that he had no right to do anything with respect to the Electoral Vote Count,” Trump wrote.
He accused the former Vice President of being “an automatic conveyor belt for the Old Crow Mitch McConnell to get Biden elected President as quickly as possible.”
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Trump is adamant about returning the conflicting elector lists to states legislatures for an constitutionally-based resolution.
Below that – how Pence circumvented this … via Politico .. Jan 7, 2021. https://t.co/EZrIlsKlVs pic.twitter.com/OhPm3NKRJE
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 5, 2022
The former President’s statement included an explanation on how Pence could have stepped in and overturned the election “if obvious signs of voter fraud or irregularities exist.”
“I was right and everyone knows it,” added Trump. “If there is fraud or large-scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out.”
The integrity of elections isn’t just confined to Trump, however.
Democrats are questioning future election legitimacy. In fact, they believe that 2022’s midterm elections could be invalidated by Republican opposition.
When President Biden was asked by a journalist if he believed that we would hold free and fair elections for 2022, he planted conspiracy seeds.
“Oh, yeah,” he replied. “I think it easily could be illegitimate.”
Biden’s second attempt to determine if the election is legitimate was even more disastrous.
“Oh, yeah, I think it could easily be illegitimate … The increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in proportion to not being able to get these reforms passed.” pic.twitter.com/nCyuAWSMXm
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 19, 2022
Mike Pence claims he cannot have reversed the 2020 election. However, he criticizes the media for using January 6th as an excuse to disparage Donald Trump supporters.
“I know the media wants to distract from the Biden administration’s failed agenda by focusing on one day in January,” said Pence.
“They want to use that one day to try and demean the character and intentions of 74 million Americans who believed we could be strong again and prosperous again and supported our administration in 2016 and 2020,” Trump’s former right-hand man continued.