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RUBIO WARNS: If Mike Pence could decide last election, what’s to stop Kamala Harris deciding next?
The Washington Times ^ | Feb 6 | By Seth McLaughlin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: MtnClimber

Making sense is not allowed!


61 posted on 02/06/2022 2:54:47 PM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: Lurkinanloomin

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...


62 posted on 02/06/2022 2:55:44 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Alberta's Child

No he’s not. Starts with a false premise.


63 posted on 02/06/2022 2:56:00 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Alberta's Child
I don’t like Rubio, but on this point he’s absolutely right.

You're a fool. If the dems had been on the other end of what happened in 2020 they absolutely would not have certified it. They actually fight, not like you and your gop buddies.
64 posted on 02/06/2022 3:03:19 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: RandFan

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.


65 posted on 02/06/2022 3:04:12 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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This isn’t difficult. This is one RINO working with Dems defending another RINO working with Dems.

The better Question is - would Kamala Harris refuse to take Biden’s calls, and go against the WH advisors, and then attend Trump Parties celebrating his Election?

Pence chose Biden over Trump. He attended celebratory functions and partied with Dems.

He brought a legal filing to prohibit him from challenging any part of any of the elections while refusing to communicate or coordinate with the President or the White House.

His brother in Congress has gotten behind Biden’s spending bills, Money for everyone!

Pence sold his book on countering and opposing Trump and got Millions and paid cash for a Mansion.

Pence literally sold us out.



66 posted on 02/06/2022 3:04:18 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: AnthonySoprano
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67 posted on 02/06/2022 3:06:02 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: RandFan
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.

68 posted on 02/06/2022 3:11:05 PM PST by lewislynn (Fox news: the most irrelevant after the fact useless news source...Fake news? try NO news)
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To: All

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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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69 posted on 02/06/2022 3:11:52 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: Roadrunner383

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

https://100percentfedup.com/huge-breaking-pa-senate-sends-letter-to-us-congressasks-for-delay-of-electoral-college-certification/


70 posted on 02/06/2022 3:13:30 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: AnthonySoprano

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71 posted on 02/06/2022 3:13:59 PM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: RandFan
Sen. Marco Rubio ... distancing himself from the repeated claims of former President Donald Trump.

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 ........


72 posted on 02/06/2022 3:23:38 PM PST by gw-ington (My neo-pronouns: she, him, it, huh, what, senile, puppet, hyena, headboard, stolen, election.)
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73 posted on 02/06/2022 3:26:57 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: Alberta's Child; All

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.


74 posted on 02/06/2022 3:28:28 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: BushCountry
there should be a mechanism to invalidate election results when states completely ignore their own election laws to get a different result than what legitimate voters intended

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.

75 posted on 02/06/2022 3:28:51 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: AnthonySoprano
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76 posted on 02/06/2022 3:30:12 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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77 posted on 02/06/2022 3:32:05 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: JonPreston

Rubio is such a snake! He was birthed out of Bushism...and Pence DID decide the last (s)election!


78 posted on 02/06/2022 3:35:51 PM PST by virginia9000
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To: AnthonySoprano

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.


79 posted on 02/06/2022 3:37:59 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Alberta's Child
I don’t like Rubio, but on this point he’s absolutely right.

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?”

80 posted on 02/06/2022 3:56:54 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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