Vice President Pence Has A Job To Do On January 6th, The President Is Making It A Complicated Task.
Pence has the responsibility of certifying Biden’s win and is under tremendous pressure from the right to subvert democracy. (Washington Post)
“Some die-hard Trump supporters are declaring that Pence will be a traitor if he does not somehow derail the proceedings. There is no evident way for him to do that even if he wanted to, but such demands ratchet up the pressure on Pence, who is unlikely to escape their wrath — or Trump’s.
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Nothing works the way it was designed to work when someone with a lot of power is intent on disrupting protocols that are in place to ensure a peaceful transfer of power. That is the situation we have now with a President who is intent on disrupting everything he can to make his successor’s ascendancy to the White House as difficult as possible.
