Michael Pence is a True Republican
The Day of Rage fomented by the usurper-Republican, Donald Trump, were thwarted by the actions of the true Republican, Vice President Michael Pence. We now have evidence from the public record.
Vice President Mike Pence’s decision to abide by the Constitution to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s win has put his relationship with President Trump under increasing strain in the closing days of the administration.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R. SC): “In this debacle of the last week or so, there’s one person for me that stands out above all others. And that is Vice President Mike Pence. The things said about him, the things he was asked to do in the name of loyalty, were over the top, unconstitutional, illegal and would have been wrong for our country.”
Mr. Pence has long sought to show his devotion to the president, standing by him during the investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the impeachment of the president by the U.S. House and the tumultuous response to the coronavirus pandemic. The vice president’s adherence to his constitutionally prescribed role in Congress had been expected. Mr. Pence and Mr. Trump spoke about Mr. Pence role repeatedly in the days leading up to the joint sessions, including a conversation Wednesday ahead of the president’s rally in which the vice president conveyed his plans and stressed the precedent it would set if he veered off course. Mr. Pence knew his decision would be received by the president and his most loyal supporters, but said that “at the end of the day he is an institutionalist and a constitutionalist.”
“I think Pence’s problem is that for four years he was a very loyal Trump supporter. He was probably the most loyal elected Republican in the country to Trump. And as a result, his political future was very closely tied to Trump’s,” said Republican consultant Alex Conant.
Mr. Trump raged at Mr. Pence from his rally and later from the White House. “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate one which they were asked to previously certify,” Mr. Trump said.
Source: “Ties with Pence Are Strained” by Catherine Lucey, the Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2021.
The undersigned first voted in the 1960 election for John F. Kennedy, and later served under JFK in the Oct-Dec 1962 Russian missile crisis in Cuba. In all subsequent election he voted as an informed independent, sometimes for the candidate who could not win, e. g. Barry Goldwater vs. Lyndon Johnson, to lower the winner’s plurality. In the 2016 election I voted, as a write-in, for the true Republican, Michael Pence.
Joseph R. Degenfelder January 8, 2021
Shaker Heights, OH
