“Proposed changes to the Electoral Count act show Pence had the power and “could have overturned the election!”
What PolitiFact found
Constitutional and election law legal scholars across the political spectrum find that the Electoral Count Act does not give the vice president the power to dispute state-certified electoral votes.
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In short
Donald Trump (Former president of the United States) made this claim around 30 January 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 February 2022, 2 days later. 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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