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Trump himself was only slightly more measured, releasing a statement calling Pence an “automatic conveyor belt” designed to “get Biden elected President as quickly as possible.” “You’re going to carry this thing eventually to your grave, because it is a mark of shame and you are a stone-cold coward,” Steve Bannon, a one-time political adviser to Trump, said of Pence on his podcast. THE POINT - NOW ON YOUTUBE! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Rather than celebrating Pence for sticking to his guns as a constitutional conservative, the Trump base of the party will castigate him for not single-handedly seeking to overturn the results of a national election.

A party long built around an adoration of the Constitution is rejecting that very document because Trump tells them to.

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This is the ridiculous reality of the present-day Republican Party on full display. Two things are true about Pence’s statements:ġ) He is 100% correct that under the Constitution, he had no legal authority to disqualify electors from certain states solely because Trump said he should.Ģ) He likely doomed whatever small chance he had at the presidency – at least in the near term – by saying what he said. “Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election, and (Vice President) Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.” “President Trump is wrong,” Pence said in a speech to a conservative group in Florida. Mike Pence just crashed his political career into Donald Trump – and the former President’s ongoing claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and should have been overturned on January 6.