Failed Arizona gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake is asking why former Vice President Mike Pence is not defending his old running mate.
During an interview with Newsmax’s Eric Bolling on Tuesday, Lake argued the 2024 presidential candidates should be defending former President Donald Trump in the wake of his fourth indictment.
When Bolling asked about Pence, the former gubernatorial candidate asked, “What about him? Where is he? And why is he not supporting President Trump who made him his vice president?”
“Mike Pence could have done something on Jan. 6 to alleviate the pain of America when they said, ‘Wait something’s wrong here. We saw things happen in 2020 that weren’t right. We’re asking you to pause the certification and send things back to the states for further review,” Lake continued.
She added, “And Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do the right thing. And now he’s running against President Trump.”
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Lake asks why isn’t Mike Pence supporting Trump and criticizes him for not sending “things back to the states” on January 6th pic.twitter.com/aD0znursgt
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Trump has repeatedly claimed there was widespread fraud that altered the results of the 2020 election. However, several recounts and legal challenges failed to substantiate his claims.
The former president was indicted by a grand jury in Georgia on Monday. He was charged with felony racketeering and other conspiracy charges following an investigation into his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the election in Georgia.
Supporters of Trump claim Pence was only being asked to send electoral votes back to state legislatures on Jan. 6, 2021.
However, he has told a different story. During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” earlier this month, Pence said, “In the days before [Jan. 6] the president was talking about us rejecting votes.”
“Then late in the process, his lawyers suggested that we return votes to the states. But frankly, the day before Jan. 6, if memory serves, they came back — his lawyers did — and said we want you to reject votes outright. They were asking me to overturn the election. I had no right to overturn the election,” he continued.
Perhaps Pence, who was a firm defender of Trump during his four years in office as vice president, has decided to make up the story for his political benefit.
But, to simply write off the perspective of the person in the room who dealt with Trump’s lawyers and should know exactly what he was being asked to do is not intellectually honest.
And if Pence’s story of being asked to throw out votes and overturn the election is accurate, he has a pretty good reason for not defending the former president.
