“All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the state and recertify, and we become president.”
Donald Trump
President of the United States. At a rally of supporters outside the White House.. Claim dated 7 Jan 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Legal scholars across the political spectrum find nothing in the Constitution nor in legislation that gives Pence this power. The vice president opens state results and reads the final tally.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 7 January 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 January 2021. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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