The former vice president stated that he did not have any authority to overturn the election.
Former President Donald Trump is blasting Mike Pence after he said that «Trump was wrong,» and that the former vice president had «no right» to overturn the 2020 election. This was not the first time that Pence had said he was unable to change the outcome of the election. However, his speech Friday marked the strongest rebuke yet of his former boss, who continues to push the disproven claim that he lost in 2020 as a result of massive, nationwide voter fraud. «This week, our former president said I had the right to ‘overturn the election,'» Pence said while speaking to the Federalist Society in Florida. «President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. Frankly, there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.» In a statement following Pence’s speech, former President Trump stated that «the Vice President’s position is not an automatic conveyor belt if obvious signs of voter fraud or irregularities exist.» «That’s why the Democrats and RINOS [Republicans in name only] are working feverishly together to change the very law that Mike Pence and his unwitting advisors used on January 6 to say they had no choice,» Trump continued.
