Former Vice Pres. Mike Pence: 'President Trump is wrong…I had no right to overturn the election.'
The Republican Party officially censured two party members, Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, for taking part in the Jan. 6 investigation.Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday went further than he has before in publicly and directly criticizing former President Donald Trump, rebuking him as"wrong" in his criticism of Pence's actions on Jan. 6.
"There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress that I possessed unilateral authority to reject Electoral College votes. And I heard this week that former President Trump said I had the right to 'overturn the election,'" Pence said in a speech Friday to a local chapter of the Federalist Society in Florida.
He earlier told the audience of conservative lawyers,"As Constitutional conservatives, the American people must know that we will always keep our oath to the Constitution, even when it would be politically expedient to do otherwise; theymust know, as the Bible says, that we will 'keep our oath even when it hurts.
"Men and women, if we lose faith in the Constitution, we won't just lose elections, we will lose our country," Pence said.
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