Former President Trump said late Sunday that he wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election while highlighting congressional efforts to reform the Electoral Count Act.
Trump, in a statement dispatched by his Save America PAC, pointed to the bipartisan effort to reform the Electoral College Act as proof that Pence did have the ability to overturn the 2020 election.
“If the Vice President (Mike Pence) had ‘absolutely no right’ to change the Presidential Election results in the Senate, despite fraud and many other irregularities, how come the Democrats and RINO Republicans, like Wacky Susan Collins, are desperately trying to pass legislation that will not allow the Vice President to change the results of the election?” Trump asked.
“Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away,” he added.
The former president also said Pence “unfortunately” did not “exercise that power,” adding that “he could have overturned the Election!”
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Conservative lawyer George Conway, meanwhile, rejected Trump’s statement from a legal standpoint, writing that the 12th Amendment and Electoral Count Act “already make it entirely clear that the Vice President merely opens the envelopes.”
“But sometimes we want to make laws even clearer so that even semiliterate psychopaths have a chance at understanding them,” he added in a tweet.
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Trump says he wanted Pence to overturn election, highlights Electoral Count Act reform effort https://t.co/QUJQW0lgzQ pic.twitter.com/RBnAUcy0xS
— The Hill (@thehill) January 31, 2022
It’ll be fun again today watching all the conservative/Republican thinkers & talking heads twist like pretzels to avoid mentioning Trump’s statement Sat night that Mike Pence should have overturned the election, as they instead focus on Minnie Mouse or “wokeness” in the military.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 31, 2022
Old enough to remember when it would have been shocking to see a former president admit that his goal was to have "overturned the Election."
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 31, 2022
It can’t be stated often enough: If Trump reclaims the White House, the American Republic dies. We came close enough the first time.
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) January 30, 2022
I don’t follow what he says as closely as I did during the #ToddlerinChief days but it’s interesting that he says “overturned the Election.” That sounds really bad. pic.twitter.com/5vkLU8G5Es
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 30, 2022
Good to know that Donald Trump thinks Kamala Harris gets to decide who the next president will be if we don’t change existing law. https://t.co/dqkPwECsZY
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) January 31, 2022
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