Trump supporters have clearly had enough. Protesters have entered the U.S. Capitol and are skirmishing with police.
Debate has been suspended and Vice-president Pence has been evacuated by the Secret Service.
Shots have been fired inside the Capitol. There have been injuries.
Turn on your TV.
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Some Trump supporters, hanging on to hope for a final electoral battle, have insisted for weeks Pence could play a key role in his constitutional duty to recognize electoral votes from the nation’s states. But others insist the vice president’s role is minor with little authority to affect the election.
The vice president’s constitutional role as president of the Senate means Pence presides over the session, which is set to begin at 1 p.m. EST.
I will be speaking at the SAVE AMERICA RALLY tomorrow on the Ellipse at 11AM Eastern. Arrive early — doors open at 7AM Eastern. BIG CROWDS! pic.twitter.com/k4blXESc0c
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2021
On Monday, none other than President Trump himself made such a claim when he spoke to Georgians at a Senate re-election rally.
“I hope Mike Pence comes through for us, I have to tell you,” Trump, who can lash out angrily when loyalists disappoint him, told the crowd.
In a tweet posted Tuesday, President Trump stated, “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudently chosen electors.”
If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be). Mike can send it back!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
In an interview with CBN News, Trump attorney Jenna Ellis suggested that Vice President Pence has the constitutional authority to ask state legislatures in six battleground states to choose from their two competing slates of delegates.
“And that’s a fair question. That’s not exercising discretion,” Ellis insisted. “That’s not setting up any sort of bad precedent.”
Pressed by correspondent David Brody about when Pence could take such action, Ellis said it would make sense for him to bring up the issue of competing slates before he opens the sealed certification envelopes.
Yet some constitutional observers insist Pence’s role is minor, like that of an announcer, whose role is to open the certificates of electoral votes from the states, then hand them to lawmakers who read the certificates aloud.
According to an extensive Associated Press story, the joint session is expected to be dramatic when some GOP lawmakers rise to object after certificates are read from some disputed battleground states. But the role of the vice president is minor despite Trump’s wishes, the AP insists.
In the Vice President’s home state of Indiana, where Pence served as governor, Micah Clark of the American Family Association of Indiana says Pence’s actions in the coming days could “haunt him” if Trump serves only one term and the vice president runs for the White House in 2024.
“Because if it’s perceived that [Pence] didn’t do all he could do for President Trump, that will hurt him,” Clark warns. “And so Mike’s in a very difficult position.”
Clark, who knows Pence personally, says the Vice President is not a fighter-brawler like President Trump who appears to enjoy a political fight.
“Mike’s not that way,” Clark tells One News Now. “He wants people to like him and Donald Trump doesn’t care about that.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
I have no faith that Pence will reject the fraudulent election. He will not do anything, because the next Democrat VP, would do the same thing. The polling places were ripe for fraud and the Democrats pulled off the fraud and now, sadly, we will be a communist nation. Liberals are a massive cancer and they have destroyed our society.
Its not just the dems being the cancer, its the RINOS SPinelessly letting them steal things…
Let’s see just how deep Pence’s convictions for doing the right thing go…He posits to be a man of faith and principle…let’s see if his actions back up his words.
So far, it’s not looking like he is a man of principles…
After what I saw and heard today, I am completely devastated. Those people who stormed the Capitol are no better than Antifa or BLM thugs.
I will not be a party to that kind of mob politics. I voted for Trump based on “party over person” and was happy with a lot of what he accomplished. However, I did not like what his sons and Guliani said this morning at the rally and in all honesty, do believe Trump’s rhetoric had something to do with the violence that later ensued. I’m done supporting him or his family and I would suspect he just ruined any chance to get back into office.
All so needless. He was just too egotistical and perhaps even psychologically damaged for his own good. The Republican Party has lots of work to do.
After what I saw and heard today, I am completely devastated. Those people who stormed the Capitol are no better than Antifa or BLM thugs.
That’s really precious, Pumpkin. I was completely devastated when the Democrats stole the election but we all have different standards. Establishment Republicans represent what is wrong with the party. They are oh, so careful to be polite to Democrats, yet they are quick to jump on their keyboard and paint all Trump supporters with the same brush.
We don’t know yet who broke into the Capitol. One America News seemed to think that some of them might be Antifa because of Antifa flyers soliciting people to wear MAGA hats and pose as Trump supporters. But, they don’t know that for sure. They may well have been Trump supporters who are fed up with being refused justice by the courts and taunted by the media. Either way those arrested will pay the price for whatever crimes they may have committed.
It won’t matter how much work the Republican Party does. The McConnells and the Romneys have gutted the party. The GOP will never win another presidential election. There aren’t enough of you NeverTrumpers to carry the vote even if the elections weren’t rigged and they are. The Steal worked so well this time that they’ll never give it up.
We’ve been TOO PASSIVE for years.. Voicing out concerns, doesn’t seem to get anything done anymore. VIOLENCE IS ALL WE HAVE left…
Pumpkinjack. Your right. Antifa and BLM were they were allowed to burn down cities and take over. I’m curious to find out if the woman was even armed.
That’s the thing though. WHEN WE KEEP SEEING the left use mob threats and violenc, to get their way, THE LONGER we keep staying ‘passive’, the WORSE it will be for us.. WE have to fight fire with fire, or there won’t be anything left to save!
Looks like SOMEONE is disliking the fact, some of us are getting TIRED of being told “stop the violence, just speak it out”…
“Mike’s not that way,” Clark tells One News Now. “He wants people to like him and Donald Trump doesn’t care about that.”
We don’t need someone who wants to be liked, we need someone who will fight.
And it looks like both Pence, AND THE SEC DEF are joining the list of those stabbing trump and We the people, in the back, all to “Stay friendly” with the left…
So that’s what the media calls chaos. When Portland was burning they called it a “peaceful demonstration”.
Yea, RIOTERS burning businesses, are ‘peaceful protesters’, but WE conservatives, are “Extremists”.. GO Figure.