{"id":1272174,"date":"2022-02-04T19:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1272174"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T00:24:38","slug":"mike-pence-president-trump-is-wrong-i-had-no-right-to-overturn-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-president-trump-is-wrong-i-had-no-right-to-overturn-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pence: \u2018President Trump Is Wrong\u2019; \u2018I Had No Right to Overturn the Election\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-pence-president-trump-is-wrong-i-had-no-right-to-overturn-the-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1272174&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1228947845-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former Vice President Mike Pence disputed former President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that Pence could have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election as he spoke on Friday during a conference in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Pence made his most direct comments yet on the matter while appearing as a keynote speaker at the conference, an annual event&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/fedsoc.org\/conferences\/2022-annual-florida-chapters-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held<\/a>&nbsp;by the conservative Federalist Society Florida lawyers\u2019 chapters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election,\u201d Pence said, per a CNN clip of the event. \u201cThe presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MIKE PENCE: \u201cPresident 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.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7feWD75Fq1\">pic.twitter.com\/7feWD75Fq1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiegerReport\/status\/1489702073549656064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFrankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president,\u201d Pence said. \u201cUnder the Constitution I had no right to change to outcome of our election, and Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024,\u201d he added to resounding applause from the Federalist Society audience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly targeted Pence as well as highlighted various battleground states that he believes could have affected the outcome of the presidential race, including Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin. The former president has continuously claimed widespread voter fraud occurred in those states and that the 2020 election was \u201crigged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has taken aim at Pence specifically because the former vice president \u2014 adhering to what he maintains were his constitutional duties \u2014 certified on January 7 that now-President Joe Biden had received 306 electoral college votes to Trump\u2019s 232.<\/p>\n<p>Pence, who has been floated as a serious possible 2024 presidential contender, has in the past been less straightforward in disagreeing with Trump on the issue,&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/03\/mike-pence-joe-biden-campaigned-as-a-moderate-but-hes-most-liberal-president-since-fdr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>&nbsp;in New Hampshire in June that he and Trump may not see \u201ceye to eye\u201d about the events of January 6\u20137 and&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=59iLtK7THJM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>&nbsp;later that month at a Reagan Foundation event that the Constitution did not grant the vice president the authority to reject electoral college votes.<\/p>\n<p>But Pence\u2019s latest more blunt remarks come in response to Trump again criticizing Pence this past Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was prompted to speak out against his former vice president as a&nbsp;bipartisan group of moderate senators, including Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), have been pushing to reform the Electoral Count Act, legislation that dates back to 1887 that dictates the process Congress uses to certify presidential election results.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in his statement Sunday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If the Vice President (Mike Pence) had \u2018absolutely no right\u2019 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? 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. Unfortunately, he didn\u2019t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last May, Trump called the 2020 election the \u201cgreatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country\u201d and said Pence had lacked \u201cthe courage to send the Electoral College vote back to states for recertification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to Ashley Oliver at <a href=\"mailto:aoliver@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aoliver@breitbart.com<\/a>. Follow her on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/asholiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@asholiver<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence disputed former President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that Pence could have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election as he spoke on Friday during a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}