To many conservative Americans, former Vice President Mike Pence is a traitor. Many believe that he could have done something about the 2020 election, but chose not to.
Still there are some of those who support what he did, even conservatives.
Regardless of how we feel about what he did or didn’t do, there are still many things that we don’t know about that day. However, we can learn more and more as people like Pence tell his side of the story, which is exactly what he’s done.
Recently, Pence wrote a memoir titled, “So Help Me God” in which he talks about what happened on January 6th. An excerpt was released by the Wall Street Journal:
Thirteen days after the 2020 election, I had lunch with President Trump. I told him that if his legal challenges came up short, he could simply accept the results, move forward with the transition, and start a political comeback, winning the Senate runoffs in Georgia, the 2021 Virginia governor’s race, and the House and Senate in 2022. Then he could run for president in 2024 and win. He seemed unmoved, even weary: “I don’t know, 2024 is so far off.”
In a Dec. 5 call, the president for the first time mentioned challenging the election results in Congress. By mid-December, the internet was filled with speculation about my role. An irresponsible TV ad by a group calling itself the Lincoln Project suggested that when I presided over the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes, it would prove that I knew “it’s over,” and that by doing my constitutional duty, I would be “putting the final nail in the coffin” of the president’s re-election. To my knowledge, it was the first time anyone implied I might be able to change the outcome. It was designed to annoy the president. It worked. During a December cabinet meeting, President Trump told me the ad “looked bad for you.” I replied that it wasn’t true: I had fully supported the legal challenges to the election and would continue to do so.
Here is the ad that Pence was referring to:
Check out the Lincoln Project ad that @Mike_Pence blames for January 6th. pic.twitter.com/C1tSCDEu1T https://t.co/qKFflNdAtz
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) November 9, 2022