Pence Says He Had No Right to Overturn Election

Former vice president Mike Pence said former president Donald Trump was “wrong” in claiming that Pence could have overturned the results of the 2020 election when he presided over the congressional affirmation of Joe Biden’s electoral college win, the Washington Post reports.

Said Pence: “This week, our former president said I had the right to ‘overturn the election.’ President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election.”

New York Times: “The comments marked the strongest rejection of Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election by his former vice president.”

Punchbowl News: “This represents as full a break from Trump as possible for Pence. He has said this less empathically over the last 13 months. But it seems Pence has decided this is where he will draw his line now.”

“Let’s be clear though — Pence was never going to win over Trump or the former president’s most fervent supporters after what happened on the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection. So his political future inside a party still dominated by Trump is limited. This is Pence admitting reality and the truth at once.”