Mike Pence: ‘Donald Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election’

It’s an “explicit rebuke,” that’s for sure:

In an explicit rebuke, former Vice President Pence says, "President Trump is wrong…Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election."

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 4, 2022

More excerpts:

More Pence: "The only role of Congress with respect to the Electoral College is to open and count votes
submitted and certified by the states. No more, no less."

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) February 4, 2022

Pence says Jan 6 was a “dark day” and reminds that the congress was reconvened to certify the election. Applause from Fed Society crowd.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 4, 2022

Pence reiterates that elections are conducted at the state level, basically doing an explainer of how elections work. Pence is now naming Trump for saying he could have overturned the election. “President Trump is wrong,” Pence says for likely the first time ever since 2016.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 4, 2022

Pence made remarks a few days after a 24-hour period in which Trump a) dangled pardons for Jan. 6 arrestees, encouraged protests in cities where prosecutors are investigating Trump if the prosecutors do anything "wrong" or "illegal" and said Pence could have overturned the elex.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 4, 2022

Pence says: "Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one president could choose the American president."

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 4, 2022

Watch for yourself:

NEW from Pence: "President Trump is wrong"

"I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone." pic.twitter.com/sarsYwpfSW

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) February 4, 2022

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