Your opinion and mine is not a popular position here but he was right in a technical sense.
I wish more people would acknowledge that the constitution says it is the job of the state legislatures to certify or not certify the elections. Period.
Congress simply accepts the results forwarded by the STATE.
With that said, Pence (and Rubio) were and are weak. I think a few congress critters were going to make a stink but the idea that somehow it would all be reversed on Jan 6th was a pipe dream.
Justice was lost at the state level. Blaming Pence for this is like blaming the kicker for not making a last second 60 yard field goal.
PS - the election was stolen. I have been adamant about it since day one. It was lost because we had no ground game and the GOPe was asleep (purposefully in my mind) at the switch. Everyone warned about vote fraud prior to the election yet nobody did a thing before or after the election.
I posted repeatedly here on FR back in November and early December of 2020, suggesting that the best course of action for the legislatures of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, etc. would be for them to vote on an alternative slate of electors on December 15th and send them to Congress for the January 6th joint session.
They didn’t even have to send a slate of Trump electors. They could have picked an obscure minor party candidate instead. As long as Biden didn’t have a clear majority of the electoral vote, then Congress would have legitimately selected the President and VP from among the top three contenders.
View the [documentary] trailer “2000 Mules” and take heart.