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Mike Pence Gets Booed And Called ‘Traitor’ At ‘Road To The Majority’ Conference

By • June 18, 2021 7:41 pm

During his speech, attendees at a conservative convention in Florida booed Former Vice President Mike Pence and chanted “traitor.”

On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence addressed at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Road to the Majority” convention in Orlando, Florida. Since January 6, when Pence confirmed President Joe Biden’s election, he has had tense ties with former President Donald Trump and some of his supporters.

“Well, hello America! It is great to be back with so many patriots dedicated to faith and freedom and the road to the majority,” Pence shouted to the crowd with some cheers and applause. While continuing to talk, there were other voices from the crowd who started to boo and chant ‘traitor.’

As Trump pursued his election challenge in January, he pressed his vice president to reject “fraudulently chosen electors.”

Pence was in charge of supervising the counting of electors in Congress and confirming Biden’s election, a typically ceremonial position.

Pence declined to carry out Trump’s instructions, stating in a letter to Congress that he lacked the constitutional power to do so.

Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving states the chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to certify previously,” Trump said in a since-removed tweet before the election was officially certified for Biden by Congress early January 7.

The election fiasco has caused a divide between Pence and Trump, and some of Trump’s followers have criticized Pence for, in their view, refusing to defend the election’s integrity.

Pence acknowledged the concerns of voter fraud, but maintained that he lacked the authority to disqualify electors who had been legally certified by the states. In a letter to Congress, he said in part:

Given the controversy surrounding this year’s election, some approach this year’s quadrennial tradition with great expectation, and others with dismissive disdain. Some believe that as Vice President, I should be able to accept or reject electoral votes unilaterally. Others believe that electoral votes should never be challenged in a Joint Session of Congress.

After a careful study of our Constitution, our laws, and our history, I believe neither view is correct.

The President is the chief executive officer of the Federal Government under our Constitution, possessing immense power to impact the lives of the American people. The Presidency belongs to the American people, and to them alone. When disputes concerning a presidential election arise, under Federal law, it is the people’s representatives who review the evidence and resolve disputes through a democratic process.

Our Founders were deeply skeptical of concentrations of power and created a Republic based on separation of powers and checks and balances under the Constitution of the United States.

Vesting the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide presidential contests would be entirely antithetical to that design. As a student of history who loves the Constitution and reveres its Framers, I do not believe that the Founders of our country intended to invest the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted during the Joint Session of Congress, and no Vice President in American history has ever asserted such authority. Instead, Vice Presidents presiding over Joint Sessions have uniformly followed the Electoral Count Act, conducting the proceedings in an orderly manner even where the count resulted in the defeat of their party or their own candidacy.

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