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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday said “vice presidents can't simply decide not to certify an election,” breaking with former President Trump after he suggested that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the ability to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Asked by moderator Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation” if he agreed with Pence — who on Friday said he had “no right to overturn the election” — Rubio said that after examining the matter, he concluded that vice presidents do not have the power to not certify an election.

When it comes to vice presidential picks, there have been some good ones and some not so good ones. CNN asked conservative historian Lee Edwards to rank the VP choices since the 1950s. [Snip] Coming in at No. 4 is Richard Nixon. He was Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate. Nixon brought with him youth -- and California. The former senator also had other assets that became huge liabilities when he later ended up in the White House. "Richard Nixon was known as the man who would cut and slash the opposition, and so that kind of dirty politics work...

The history of the selection of modern-day vice presidential nominees is chock-full of blunders caused by haste or miscalculations. Just after twilight on July 1, 2004, John Kerry slipped through the garden in the back of his Georgetown town house. Accompanied by a single aide and two Secret Service agents, he walked about 60 feet uphill, crossed a side street, and entered the home of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. There he found a fellow senator, John Edwards, waiting for him. Edwards had just flown in from a private Florida airfield near Disney World. As Kerry and Edwards began...