Pence pushes false election fraud claims in denouncing Democratic reform bill

[DonViejo]

By Betsy Klein, CNN

Updated 10:16 AM ET, Wed March 3, 2021

(CNN) - Former Vice President Mike Pence is seizing on a Democratic-led initiative to streamline election standards to again push false claims of voting irregularities in one of his first public statements since leaving office.

Pence expressed concern about "the integrity of the 2020 election," citing "significant" and "troubling" voting irregularities in an op-ed for the conservative publication Daily Signal.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would have changed the outcome of the 2020 election, and Pence did not make any specific claims in his op-ed. Rather, the former vice president continued to promote the misinformation pushed by former President Donald Trump that led Trump supporters to storm the US Capitol as Pence joined the Senate to certify the election's results.

While in office, Pence never publicly challenged Trump's false claims that the election was stolen from him, but he didn't address the matter after he certified the results on January 6. In his last days in office, he touted administration accomplishments and avoided questions from the press amid Trump's impeachment, and has largely kept a low profile since President Joe Biden's inauguration.

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[brush]

1. They tried to hang his ass and he's still being the loyal lap dog. God!

Is this a lack of self esteem? WTF, Pense?

[Archae]

2. Pence needs to the STFU and fade into the woodwork.

Like Cheney.

[Lochloosa]

3. Who?

[Hotler]

4. I'm begining to think this guy has no employable skills out in the real world.

The only way for him to make a living is by being an ass kisser to a fascist.

[struggle4progress]

5. Pence ... Pence ... Name sounds vaguely familiar ... I should know this one ...

Is he the guy that chaired that noisily fanfared Commission on Election Integrity a few years ago that found no evidence whatsover of voter fraud and then disbanded when a court demanded they produce their working documents?