The CNN host grilled the former vice president on why he didn't take preemptive measures to help prevent the Jan. 6 riot.
’s false claims of election fraud before the siege, Pence said he was hopeful Trump would “come around” and surrender his stance and his belief that Pence had the authority to overturn the results. “Sadly, things went downhill from there,” Pence added.
“Well, I wanted to be respectful. Remember, we had about 60 lawsuits that were working, some of which were still in the courts,” Pence replied, referring to the dozens of fruitless cases brought by Trump and associates disputing the 2020 election results over baseless claims of fraud and other irregularities.“Well, yeah, a lot of ’em were not, too,” Pence said.
Collins: Don't you think it would have had an effect if you had come out in mid December and publicly conceded the election?Pence: A lot of them were not
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