Posted on 02/06/2022 1:45:46 PM PST by RandFan
Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday that “vice presidents can’t simply decide not to certify” the result of an election, distancing himself from the repeated claims of former President Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump has insisted that former Vice President Mike Pence could have changed the results of the 2020 election.
“I just don’t think a vice president has that power,” Mr. Rubio said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“If President Trump runs for reelection, I believe he would defeat Joe Biden — and I don’t want Kamala Harris to have the power as vice president to overturn that election,” he said. “That is the same thing that I concluded in January of 2021.”
Mr. Pence scored headlines last week after delivering remarks before the Federalist Society in which he said, “President Trump is wrong.
“I had no right to overturn the election,” Mr. Pence said.
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Making sense is not allowed!
We know you dislike everything about the Florida senator-but that isn’t at issue here-hell, I don’t like some things about him, but he’s not a senator in my state, so-but Rubio happens to be right on this one-Pence did drop the ball by not speaking out/pushing an investigation, but that is it-the Vp does not have the the right to overturn the certification of an election-if they did, you can bet that Al Gore would have made sure Joe Lieberman did it in 2000 and we’d have had pres Gore- the MSM is just pushing a false narrative, as usual...
No he’s not. Starts with a false premise.
That’s why ensuring the integrity of the vote is paramount, and also why the dems are fighting so hard against it. Pence upheld a fraudulent election. So long as “counting the votes” is counting fraudulent votes then we could have just submitted fraudulent votes to combat the fraud.
If Mike Pence could decide last election, what’s to stop Kamala Harris deciding next?What makes anyone think the laughing Hyena wouldn't do it anyway?
Why should she care what Mike Pence did or didn't do.
All of a sudden Mike Pence is a genius on the Constitution?
Did the founding fathers give the Vice President a rubber stamp?
No one said he can overturn an election (post the exact quote). He's also not bound by law to simply rubber stamp the outcome.
There sure are a lot of Trump hating idiots on this forum.
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Rubio lied about Comey and Strzok having valid reasons to Investigate Trump and his family, and then said he couldn’t share it with the Public because it was Classified (same exact thing Comey did) - but there were grave concerns about Trump colluding with Russia, nefarious things that were real and damning.
The Mueller Report came out - and Rubio lied his ass off. Rubio was working with VA Senator Mark Warner, who was using Spyware to communicate with Russia, and the Committee covered it up for him.
Rubio is a known Liar.
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The Pennsylvania State Senate has sent a letter to the United States Congress where they listed a number of concerning issues and voter “irregularities” related to the November election. Near the end of their letter, the Pennsylvania State Senate asks the United States Congress to delay certification of the Electoral College to allow due process as they “pursue election integrity in our Commonwealth
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As you can see, the Republican "leaders" have decided their 2022/2024 election strategy is to distance themselves from and bash the very popular and successful "President Donald Trump."
Oh wait, that sounds exactly like the far-left Dems/RINOs' strategy, too ........
Wrong. Pence was not asked to decide anything. He had a duty to stand back while objections were heard.
January 6 is not in the Constitution. January 20 is.
There is no constitutional requirement that Pence count ballots on January 6.
Pence knew there were objections, and he chose to make it an issue of “deciding the election.”
It was his flunky Chief of Staff Marc Short that wrote the Pence letter released on January 6.
Now Pence is trying to defend his treason.
This was a seminal moment in US History causing an internal war that is just getting going,
Three years on from now there will be accountability. Watch Pence flip-flop and say he didn’t know. He will blame it on Short.
Short could hang because Treason carries the death penalty.
We have only one life to live and when a crime of the magnitude of the 2020 election steal occurs, an example must be made to leave a mark on history for all to remember.
A DOJ rule change occurred in late November 2020 to reinstate or allow hangings and firing squads.
This, in a nutshell, was Al Gore's argument in 2000.
Legitimate voters INTENDED to vote for Gore, but they voted for Pat Buchanan instead because of poor ballot design.
This may even have been correct.
But once you empower a court, or Congress, or anyone to proclaim an outcome based on "voter intent", you might as well just drop the pretense of voting and choose officials by lottery.
Rubio is such a snake! He was birthed out of Bushism...and Pence DID decide the last (s)election!
The Mueller Report came out - and Rubio lied his ass off. Rubio was working with VA Senator Mark Warner, who was using Spyware to communicate with Russia, and the Committee covered it up for him.
Rubio is a known Liar.
Rubio was acting chair of the Senate Intel committee when the laptop became public. He could have and should have gone to DEFCON 5 over Hunter Biden’s joy rides on AF2, connections with Chicoms and Russian/Ukrainian oligarchs. But obviously he did not. That’s really odd considering the very public China and Russia Hawk he poses as. Something doesn’t add up here.
That’s absurd. He clearly is NOT right at all. First of all, he completely mischaracterizes what Pence was being asked to do. The argument about what authority Pence had or did not have aside, no one was asking Pence to just unilaterally make Trump the President, as Rubio falsely claims. As for Pence’s proper role here, unless you believe the 12th Amendment is only ceremonial, there is a REASON it says what it does, and it clearly gives the Vice President some level of ability to reject improperly submitted electoral votes. For one thing, why would the same section give the Congress the authority to overrule the Vice President if he had no discretionary power?
There would have been nothing improper about Pence simply returning the questionable electoral votes to those states for verification, unless you believe as many leftists do that the Vice President’s role is only ceremonial. If you do believe that, then I would have to ask what other parts of the Constitution you deem merely “ceremonial?”
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