The Ohio senator has said that unlike Mike Pence, he would have thrown the outcome of the 2020 election into doubt by allowing Trump electors.
, Donald Trump chose someone who has said he would have done what Vice President Mike Pence refused to do — ignore the Constitution and try to derail certification of Trump’s election loss in 2020.
“If Vance did what he said he would do, we could have had chaos on our hands for quite a while, and it would have been terrible for the country,” said Edward Foley, who directs the election law program at Ohio State University. “It’s either a failure of understanding the Constitution or willful defiance.”
Vance, by contrast, has been outspoken in saying he would have done his part in the effort to use Trump electors to overturn the vote, which is now the subject of prosecutions in multiple states. In the run-up to Pence presiding over the Jan. 6, 2021, certification of the vote in Congress, Trump repeatedly pressured him to deny Biden’s victory, even though the vice presidentunder the Constitution. Republican electors had signed certificates claiming Trump had won seven states carried by Biden. Some Trump advisers claimed Pence could recognize those rival slates or call on state legislatures to do so.
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