Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday directly rebutted Donald Trump's false claims that Pence somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was simply 'wrong.'
Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club on November 30, 2021 in Washington, DC.
"The American people must know that we will always keep our oath to the Constitution, even when it would be politically expedient to do otherwise," he told the group Friday. He noted that, under Article II Section One of the Constitution, "elections are conducted at the state level, not by the Congress" and that "the only role of Congress with respect to the Electoral College is to open and count votes submitted and certified by the states. No more, no less.
"Men and women, if we lose faith in the Constitution, we won’t just lose elections — we’ll lose our country."Pence, in his remarks Friday, acknowledged the lingering anger among many in Trump’s base, even as he said it was time "to focus on the future." It also comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers has been pushing to update the Electoral Count Act to eliminate any ambiguity about the vice president’s role.
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