Former Vice President Mike Pence is visiting Arizona on Monday to deliver an address on border issues.Pence will be joined by Gov. Doug Ducey, who, in April, formed a network with 25 other Republican governors dedicated to border security.Ducey’s office says Arizona is “at the forefront of the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border.”
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Kelli Ward in 2019.
In another attempt to get Arizona’s electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden thrown out, Ward has sued Pence. The idea is to show that since Pence is the presiding officer of the Senate, he has the power to unilaterally decide whether to accept or reject Arizona s 11 electoral votes.
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Vice President Mike Pence in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 21, 2020.
But Pence’s legal team says the lawsuit is flawed. They say Ward is suing the wrong defendant and should be challenging the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, not Pence, who’s job of certifying the results is mostly a ceremonial one.