U.S. President Denies Pence Will Confirm Election Defeat
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
(Worthy News) – U.S. President Donald J. Trump condemned reports that the Vice President would confirm his declared defeat in the recent presidential election.
Trump spoke Tuesday while several media suggested perhaps prematurely a narrow Democratic victory in Tuesday’s U.S. Senate elections in Georgia.
The two races in the battleground state were to decide whether declared President-elect Joe Biden enjoys control of Congress or faces stiff opposition to his political agenda.
Trump did not rule out that he, not Biden, will be sworn in (again) president on January 20. The embattled leader responded to a report that Vice President Mike Pence informed him he does not have the power to block the expected congressional certification of Biden’s victory.
The president pushed back, saying he and Pence “are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act.”
“The New York Times [newspaper] report regarding comments Vice President Pence supposedly made to me today is fake news. He never said that,” Trump stressed in a statement.
The president cited what he claims was widespread fraud in the November election, including reports of political corruption, voting machine tampering, and mysterious votes appearing out of nowhere.
Trump’s political opponents say the claims, including sworn statements from election observers, are unsubstantiated.
Ahead of Tuesday’s comments President Trump, told a Senate election rally in Georgia he hopes Pence “comes through for us,” referring to the vice president’s role in presiding over the counting of electoral votes this week.
“I hope Mike Pence comes through for us, I have to tell you,” Trump said. “I hope that our great vice president, our great vice president, comes through for us. He’s a great guy because if he doesn’t come through, I won’t like him quite as much.”
Critics claim Pence’s role is mostly ceremonial as a joint session of Congress meets on Wednesday.
It is due to confirm the tally of the crucial Electoral College, which met last month and voted 306-232 for Biden to become the 46th president of the United States.
He hopes to control the U.S. Congress. On Tuesday, Georgia elections swung back and forth, with Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler holding slight edges on Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff, a documentary filmmaker, and the Reverend Raphael Warnock, a pastor at a historic Black church in Atlanta.
But in a hopeful sign for Democrats, about 670,000 votes reportedly remained to be counted in counties that Biden won in November, mostly around Atlanta. About 300,000 were left to count in counties that Republican President Donald Trump carried, according to Edison Research institute estimates.
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