Trump wrong in saying vice president could overturn election: Pence

“President Trump is wrong,” Mr Pence said. “I had no right to overturn the election.”

Former Vice President Mike Pence (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Mike Pence has directly rebutted Donald Trump’s false claims that the former vice president somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was simply “wrong”.

In a speech to the conservative Federalist Society in Florida, Mr Pence addressed Mr Trump’s intensifying efforts this week to advance the false narrative that he could have done something to prevent Joe Biden from taking office.