[philippa]

If we don’t win any of these court cases, and the state legislatures don’t act, will Pence have the courage to reject states?

[Armscor38]

“If we don’t win any of these court cases, and the state legislatures don’t act, will Pence have the courage to reject states?”

VP Pence doesn’t have the authority to reject states. Only Congress does and that would require both chambers agreeing to do so. All VP Pence does is preside over the counting of the votes and announces the results.

[mquinn]

VP Pence’s role in the counting is essentially ceremonial.

We may see team efforts of, say, Gaetz and Cruz (the objection phase requires it to be in writing and signed by 1 of each chamber), but once that is entered, each chambers deliberates and then returns a yea or nay to the challenge. It takes 2 yeas to accept the challenge, and the House will never do so.

[scrabblehack]

That requires both Houses, not Pence.

If the legislatures would appoint electors, Trump might catch up with Tilden.