Former Vice President Mike Pence called out former President Donald Trump on Friday, saying Trump is “wrong” to say that Pence had the authority to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election when Congress gathered to certify President Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021.
Speaking at a gathering of the conservative Federalist Society in Florida, Pence said, “President Trump is wrong: I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. And frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
Trump has continued to refuse the outcome of the election that he lost to Biden, and earlier in the week he inaccurately insisted again that Pence “could have overturned the election” when he presided over the counting of electoral ballots at the Capitol. A pro-Trump mob overran the building that day, with some rioters shouting, “Hang Mike Pence.”
Pence called Jan. 6 “a dark day” in Washington. “Whatever the future holds, I know we did our duty that day,” Pence said, adding, “I believe the time has come to focus on the future.”
“Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election,” Pence said, adding that Vice President Kamala Harris “will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.”
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