Former Vice President Mike Pence has defended the Republican National Committee censure of GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, arguing that the resolution referring to Jan. 6 as 'legitimate political discourse' was misconstrued.
"There are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress that I possessed unilateral authority to reject Electoral College votes. And I heard this week that former President Trump said I had the right to 'overturn the election,'" Pence said in a speech to a local chapter of the Federalist Society in Florida.Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Advancing Freedom Lecture Series at Stanford University, on Feb.
"President Trump is wrong. … I had no right to overturn the election," he said."The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. And frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.
The event was titled"How to Save America from the Woke Left," and Pence discussed multiple topics, including the Trump's administration record, the pandemic, and more. Pence's speech at Stanford was one of many recent lectures he has given while traveling and speaking at different universities across the country. He has made previous stops at the University of Iowa and Texas A&M.
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