president trump is wrong. howard: jason cough fetes, mike pence explicitly pushing back against trump s strongest words to date saying the vice president had the power to, quote, overturn the election. the media s reaction was, wow, that s great. trump pence finally spoke up after years of being loyal ask good for him. your thoughts. the role of the united states congress, the role of of the senate president, which is the vice president, is to simply count the votes that are presented to the congress when certified by the states based on the popular vote within those states. looking forward, for instance, kamala harris at this next election, she d be the president of the senate, she doesn t have discretion to just pick a unilateral decision as to whether or not what the states sent were valid. what they get to decide is, is the count right. that s all they do. they simply are vote counters.