There are those in our party who believe that, as the presiding officer over the joint

session of Congress, that I possess unilateral authority to reject electoral college votes.

And I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election.

The President Trump is wrong.

I had no right to overturn the election.

The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone.

And frankly, there is no idea more on American than the notion that any one person could

choose the American president.

Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election.

And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.

That was former Vice President Mike Pence.

In the speech to the Federalist Society last week, delivering his most forceful rebuke yet

to the man he had faithfully served for four years, Donald Trump.

It may well have been Pence's finest hour.

Not only did he tell Trump that he was flat out wrong in his efforts to overturn the

2020 election, but that there was, quote, no idea more on American than Trump's persistent

treaties to him that he unilaterally toss out certified votes of electors on January

6th so that Trump could stay in power.

How extraordinary was Pence's speech and why did he deliver it now?

And how much impact will it have on a Republican party, which on the very same day as Pence

was talking, was busy centering Republican Congress members Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger

for participating in the January 6th investigation.

...