ORLANDO, Fla. ― Former Vice President Mike Pence is expected to refute Donald Trump’s claims Friday again that Pence “could have nullified the election” to allow Trump to remain in power despite losing in 2020 by more of 7 million votes.
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Pence was already scheduled to speak at the conservative Federalist Society conference in Florida, and advisers have indicated in recent days that he is likely to respond there to Trump’s latest attacks.
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Trump, who has long claimed that all he wanted Pence to do was send various electoral lists that Democrat Joe Biden had recovered to the states to “correct” his mistakes, earlier this week made it clear what his real goal had been. all along: that Pence unilaterally give Trump a second term.
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On Sunday, Trump said in a statement that a bipartisan consensus in Congress to amend the 1887 Voter Count Act to clarify the role of the vice president during the vote certification ceremony, which takes place every four years, proves that Pence did have the authority to reinstate Trump. as president if he had wanted to do so.
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“Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have nullified the election!” Trump wrote.
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Two days later, Trump said the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol that he had incited should investigate Pence for not doing what Trump wanted.
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Pence, who is laying the groundwork for a 2024 presidential bid, has in the past year infrequently countered Trump’s false claims that he alone could have kept Trump in office.
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He first broached the subject in a speech to New Hampshire Republicans in early June, telling his audience that while he and Trump may never agree on January 6, he did what had to do that day. “Thanks to the swift action of the Capitol Police and federal law enforcement, the violence was quelled, the Capitol was secured, and that same day we reconvened Congress and did our duty under the Constitution and the laws of the United States. United States,” he said.
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Three weeks later, Pence was more explicit on the subject at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California. “Now, there are people in our party who believe that in my position as chairman of the joint session, I had the authority to reject or return electoral votes certified by the states.” he said. “But the Constitution does not give the vice president such authority before the joint session of Congress. And the truth is, there is hardly any idea more anti-American than the notion that anyone could elect the American president.”
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Trump stopped talking to Pence at that point and gradually began repeating his false claim, first made on the evening of January 6 and further inflaming his mob, that Pence had the authority but “lacked the power.” courage” to keep Trump inside. Energy.
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Pence became the linchpin of Trump’s plan to nullify the election after the Electoral College formally voted on December 14, 2020, sealing Biden’s 306-232 victory. The Trump White House and campaign aides had pushed for their supporters in several of the states Biden won to send out lists of Trump “electors” anyway.
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Pence could then cite these “competing” voter lists to completely ignore the electoral votes coming from those states and then, with Trump holding the lead in the remaining states, declare him the winner.
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However, Pence made sure to sabotage that plan by crafting language that allowed him to ignore Trump’s fake whiteboards from the start.
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Instead of asking designated accountants to “count and list the votes cast by the electors of the various states,” as then-Vice President Biden had ordered four years earlier, Pence told them to “announce the votes cast by the states.” electors from each state, beginning with Alabama, which the parliamentarian has informed me is the only voting certificate from that state and purports to be a return from that state that has attached a certificate from an authority in that state purporting to name or ascertain the voters.”
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Because only genuine voters had such a certificate attached, that language necessarily excluded Trump’s fraudulent lists.
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Trump a year ago became the first president in more than two centuries of elections to refuse to surrender power peacefully. His instigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol storming, his last attempt to stay in office, killed five, including a police officer, injured 140 more officers and caused four police officers to commit suicide.
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It is now being investigated by federal and state officials in multiple jurisdictions.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has been conducting a civil investigation of her family business, while the Manhattan District Attorney has been conducting a criminal investigation.
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Meanwhile, the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, has assembled a special grand jury just to focus on Trump’s attempt to force state officials to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss of that state to Biden. in 2020.
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And the House Jan. 6 committee has been subpoenaing more and more former and current advisers to Trump to determine their precise role in the events of that day, while the Justice Department has confirmed it is investigating at least an element of Trump’s plan to stay in power. : the submission of false Trump “electors” in the states that Biden won.
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At a rally last weekend, Trump called on his supporters to organize “the biggest protests we’ve ever had in Washington, DC, in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere” if prosecutors come after him, “because our country and our elections are corrupt. ”
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Despite this, Trump remains the dominant figure in the GOP and is outspoken about running for president again in 2024.
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