A longtime friend of Mike Pence says the former vice president, who was booed last week as he delivered a speech, is the target of public frustration over a controversial election and the questionable claim that Pence could have used his public office to stop the certification of electors.
Pence was speaking June 18 at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference, held in Orlando, when some in the audience booed him and even yelled “Traitor!” as he spoke. That frustration comes after Pence, in January, openly defied Donald Trump by accepting the certification of state electors to finalize the 2020 presidential election.
According to the U.S. Constitution, the Vice President is tasked with overseeing electoral votes from the states since he serves as president of the U.S. Senate. Some legal scholars have called the role a largely ceremonial one, with no room for political or legal maneuvering.
Pence ultimately reached that same conclusion, too, and did so despite Trump’s demand that he use his authority to halt the electoral counting.
“It is my considered judgment,” Pence wrote in a letter to Congress, “that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.”
That view was not shared by many voters nor by his frustrated boss, who said in a Twitter post that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”
Micah Clark, who leads the American Family Association of Indiana, knows Pence personally from his time as Indiana governor and is now witnessing millions of Americans blame Pence for allowing Joe Biden to enter the White House.
“And in some ways Mike is a victim of that feeling,” Clark tells One News Now. “The second thing is they’re frustrated with his performance, fairly or unfairly, as the head of the Senate in the election count. But he is taking it on the chin for what’s happened in our Election Day.”
Reacting to the booing crowd, AFR show host Sandy Rios says she was not surprised at the reception for Pence considering his decision.
“When [Pence] could have done something,” she says, “he chose to do nothing and that was very disappointing.”
Looking ahead to a presidential run, both Rios and Clark predict many voters won’t forgive Pence for his decision.
“I think if you just look at circumstances now,” Rios observes, “honestly I think any notion that Vice President Pence could win the candidacy, much less the presidency, are just not great.”
“Fairly or unfairly, he’s being labeled with having been weak at a time when Trump was looking for strength,” Clark says. “And so, again, I think Mike has taken the brunt of a lot of frustration from voters and it’s hurting his brand.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Pence does not have a chance of winning the Republican nomination for President.
“It is my considered judgment,” Pence wrote in a letter to Congress, “that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.”,,,,,,,,Hell Mike, nobody wanted you to count the votes, just take the time to investigate how many were stolen or illegal. He who takes the path of least resistance, usually is on a one-way street to hell. So just how was our Constitution sustained by placing people into office who have no respect for it, openly refuse to enforce its tenets, and brag they would change our sacred documents and pack our Supreme Court? The greater the opportunity lost, smaller the man.
“When you come to the fork in the road, take it” refers to the quickest way to get to his house,,,,,,,this time back to the House of THE PEOPLE by throwing your Boss and an honest election under the bus.
HELL i hope his useless butt, is not even allowed to run!
No matter what he would have done he would be criticized. There is no Constitutional mechanism for an audit or recount, so states auditing their own results would probably turn in the same figures; the courts pretty much avoided the issue or sustained the ‘official’ count. Other than a legal challenge with a court injunction halting state certification all that would have happened would have been a vicious cycle and never ending debate settling nothing.
Post election audits are revealing that Biden did in fact have more votes than Trump. A majority of illegal ballots cast recounted still shows the same result. Trump may have had 4 Aces. Biden in the eyes of the left won fair and square with 5 Aces.
Any State that came up with more votes cast then the number of registered voters should be prima facia evidence that the election was NOT legit !!!