“I upheld the Constitution,” the former vice president yelled back. “Read it.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence certified the presidential election results for Joe Biden on Jan. 6, 2021 — a ceremonial duty that preceded the riot at the Capitol and made him the target of the Republican base’s most ardent Trump supporters. | Darron Cummings/AP PhotoFormer Vice President Mike Pence defended certifying the 2020 election for Joe Biden in response to jeers and insults from a crowd of Donald Trump supporters outside a campaign event in New Hampshire.
“Why’d you sell out the people?” a man called out as Pence arrived for a town hall in Londonderry on Friday evening. “Why didn’t you uphold the Constitution?”Protesters in the group were wearing MAGA gear and holding pro-Trump signs, according to footage from ABC News and NBC News. Pence certified the presidential election results for Joe Biden on Jan. 6, 2021 — a ceremonial duty that preceded the riot at the Capitol and made him the target of the Republican base’s most ardent Trump supporters.
As such, Pence has struggled to gain solid ground in the GOP presidential primary. He has not yet qualified for the August GOP debate: Pence in the second quarter of the year, and he typically polls in the single digits in national and early primary state surveys.
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