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The Washington Post reports:
“This week, our former president said I had the right to ‘overturn the election. President Trump is wrong,” Pence said Friday. “I had no right to overturn the election.”
Pence dismissed Trump’s statement during a keynote speech given Friday during a conference hosted by the Federalist Society, an organization for conservative and libertarian lawyers, in Florida this weekend.
“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,” Pence said. “Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election. And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.”
Read the full article. CNN reports that some people walked out after Pence’s remarks, which drew weak applause.
Fmr VP Mike Pence makes strongest remarks yet on #January6th, declaring “Pres Trump is wrong… I had no right to overturn the election,” warns “we will lose our country” if Constitution discarded as Trump wanted, cites Scalia, Adams, @washingtonpost rpts: https://t.co/IkXLpRUQPI
— Mark Albert (@malbertnews) February 4, 2022
MIKE PENCE: “President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. 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
Breaking News: Former Vice President Mike Pence rejected Donald Trump’s false claim that Pence had the right to overturn the 2020 election. “President Trump is wrong,” he said to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization. https://t.co/oGJpUB9nky
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 4, 2022