‘WITH ALL DUE RESPECT’: Pence defends his actions when confronted about Jan. 6.
Former Vice President Mike Pence addressed thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group in Paris, France on Saturday. on Wednesday defended his actions during the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election when pressed by a supporter of former President Donald Trump over whether he had the constitutional authority to reject a state's electoral votes.
"If it wasn't for your vote, we would not have Joe Biden in the White House. Joe Biden shouldn't be there, and all those wonderful things that you and Trump were doing together would be continuing, and this country would be on the right path," the woman said. "Do you ever second guess yourself? That was a constitutional right that you had to send those votes back to the states," she added.the Constitution
"I'm sorry ma'am, but that's actually what the Constitution says. No vice president in American history ever asserted the authority that you have been convinced that I had. But I want to tell you, with all due respect, I said before – I said when I announced, President Trump was wrong about my authority that day, and he's still wrong," Pence said.
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