Asked if that means he would go so far as to put Trump’s desires above his constitutional authority — as Pence has said he was asked to do on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump wanted him to send the election back to the states — Vance wouldn’t entertain the “hypothetical.”
“I think it’s weird to engage in hypotheticals given the law’s changed here,” Vance said, referring to legislation that Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed to restrict how the Electoral College is counted.
“As I’ve said repeatedly, I think there absolutely were problems in the election of 2020. I think it’s important for the vice president to not, to do whatever he can to try to rectify those problems,” Vance said. “The role necessarily is going to be a lot different than it was back then, because the laws have changed.”