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Trump has leaned on Pence to try and help him evade losing his job…..

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In less than. two weeks from now the Electoral College results will be reported to Congress….

The Vice President of the United States will preside over the ratification of the results…..

You KNOW what is next right?

The loser….

President Donald Trump wants his Vice President to stand up and NOT accept those results, something Pence cannot really do….Actually?….Pence is not even needed to do so…..Pelosi will accept and McConnell say’s he will also…..Pence has explained as much to the big guy, who has not taken the Vice President’s answer too kindly….

McConnell and others simply want this who Trump effort to go away and are probably counting the down the days of the Trump Presidency with as much angst as the Democratic lawmakers are….

Hours before President Donald Trump retweeted a message for his vice president to “act” in stopping the ratification of the Electoral College, he met for more than an hour in the Oval Office with Mike Pence, whom he has complained recently isn’t doing enough to support his bid to overturn the election.

The discussion was “entirely unrelated” to the eventual tweet, one person familiar with the matter said, though would not specify whether the issue of the January 6 ratification in Congress arose. The two men went separate ways for the holiday.
As Trump enters the holiday stretch as fixated as ever on overturning the results of the election, the Electoral College certification is becoming a focal point for his efforts.
On Wednesday evening, as he was flying to Florida for his vacation, Trump retweeted a call from one of his supporters for Pence to refuse to ratify the Electoral College results on January 6 — a prospect that has captured his imagination even if it remains completely impossible….
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Pence and White House aides have tried to explain to him that his role is more of a formality and he cannot unilaterally reject the Electoral College votes.
Traditionally, the vice president presides over the electoral vote certification, though it’s not a requirement. In 1969, then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey didn’t preside over the process since he had just lost the presidential election to Richard Nixon. The president pro tempore of the Senate presided instead.
One source close to Pence said it is not seen as a good option for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley — the current president pro tempore — to be there instead of Pence on January 6….
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