{"id":1275924,"date":"2022-02-06T11:37:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T16:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1275924"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T16:37:55","slug":"pences-former-chief-of-staff-there-were-significant-concerns-with-the-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pences-former-chief-of-staff-there-were-significant-concerns-with-the-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence\u2019s Former Chief of Staff: \u2018There Were Significant Concerns\u2019 With The 2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fpences-former-chief-of-staff-there-were-significant-concerns-with-the-2020-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=1275924&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Marc Short, the Chief of Staff for former Vice President Mike Pence, admitted there were \u201csignificant concerns\u201d about the 2020 election Sunday during his appearance on \u201cMeet The Press.\u201d <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When discussing Pence\u2019s recent comments about his legal authority to challenge the results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/03\/ted-cruz-election-audit-dismissing-election-fraud-claims-real-violence-democratic-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 election<\/a> on Jan. 6, host Chuck Todd pressed Short as to why the former Vice President didn\u2019t take it a step further and admit that Donald Trump lost the election. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/04\/trump-wrong-mike-pence-rebukes-claim-overturned-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Pence Smacks Down Idea He Could Have \u2018Overturned\u2019 2020 Election)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there were significant concerns about what transpired in Pennsylvania, what transpired in Wisconsin, what transpired in Georgia \u2026 when you said you had election officials overruling state officials and saying we\u2019ll keep the ballot open to allow universal access and mail-in balloting,\u201d Short replied. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked if he believed Joe Biden was legitimately elected president, Short conceded that while he believes Joe Biden was \u201cduly elected\u201d there were \u201csignificant concerns\u201d that still cloud the 2020 election. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/30\/poll-npr-ipsos-republicans-trump-biden-voter-fraud-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Poll: Two-Thirds Of Republicans Believe Voter Fraud Helped Biden Win)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoesn\u2019t it say a lot a year later that actually the more evidence has shown that no fraud happened? Doesn\u2019t that even reinforce this even more a year later?\u201d Todd asked<\/p>\n<p>Short again reiterated that he believed there are \u201csignificant concerns\u201d adding that he was \u201cglad the states are looking to rectify it\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Short did express concerns over the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/04\/14\/mail-vote-election-trump-democrats-fraud-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">election<\/a> process and the right for the results to be challenged, he maintained that the Constitution is \u201cclear\u201d about the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re afforded a chance to challenge, you\u2019re afforded the chance to bring legal challenges, but at the point of the Electoral College meeting on December 14, at that point the process is concluded. That\u2019s why the Constitution wanted the states the ability to certify elections and not the federal government. It\u2019s very clear, in fact, in the federalist papers. They warned about the threat of a federal government having that sort of authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked at what point did he conclude the allegations about election fraud were baseless, Short replied he was not sure the allegations were baseless. \u201cI\u2019m not confident of that,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Short, the Chief of Staff for former Vice President Mike Pence, admitted there were \u201csignificant concerns\u201d about the 2020 election Sunday during his appearance on \u201cMeet The &#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-1275924","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\/1275924","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=1275924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275924\/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=1275924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}