The states all had more than adequate time and legal justification to nullify their elections and name their electors in the legislature. All they had to say is the Governor and SoS did not follow state law! They didn’t even have to prove a scintilla of fraud.
They did not. Not even one.
Yet somehow this is Pence’s fault?
Absolutely it was in large part Pence’s fault. The state and national GOP played a sick game of political hot potato to run out the clock and steal the election from Trump.
Pence totally abdicated his duty as a sitting VP and leader of the GOP. Instead of hiding under his desk he should have been breathing down the necks of the state GOPers and making it clear political careers were being ended if they did not support the rule of law. He should have been on the hotline to the white shoe law firms refusing to support the GOP ticket and making it clear they would never work for the GOP/RNC again if they did not take the stolen election case. Etc., etc. Did he do any of that? No.
Pence was AWOL in a historic battle against Marxist Democrats who burn our cities. That’s the bottom line.
“Pence was AWOL in a historic battle against Marxist Democrats who burn our cities.”
He was certainly AWOL in the rhetorical war.
But it was Republican legislatures that abdicated their legal responsibility and authority.