Indianapolis Star
At a Thursday evening event in Simi Valley, California, former Vice President Mike Pence appeared to use his strongest language yet on the deadly U.S. Capitol riot that endangered his life and the lives of fellow lawmakers and Hill staff. There s almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American President. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. Pence said, reasserting that he had no authority to reject any electoral votes certified by states, as insisted by former President Donald Trump. I understand the disappointment many feel about the last election I can relate, Pence said, to some chuckles in the room. I was on the ballot. But you know, there s more at stake than our party and our political fortunes in this moment.