Trump and Pence, poor match

Fresno CA

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Pence contradicts Trump on January 6, calling plan to decertify 2020 election 'un-American'. Former Vice President Mike Pence rebuked former President Donald Trump on Thursday night on the question of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. Pence also said he will "always be proud" of his role in affirming the election results on January 6 following a deadly riot of Trump supporters at the US Capitol. The former vice president's remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, focused primarily on laying out a pro-Trump platform for a potential White House run of his own. But Pence also offered a harsh assessment of the former President's claims, in the days and weeks leading up to January 6, about changing the results of the election during the official counting of electoral votes in Congress. "The Constitution affords the vice president no authority to reject or return electoral votes submitted to the Congress by the states," said Pence, contradicting Trump's claim at his January 6 rally that his vice president could "do the right thing" and reject the vote count. Without mentioning Trump by name, Pence said there are "those in our party" who believe that "any one person" could select the president.