“Vice President Mike Pence "has the absolute right" to "send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president.”
What FactCheck.org found
The Constitution doesn’t say the vice president shall count the votes, Epps said. “It says the votes shall be counted.” And the Electoral Count Act says that counting is done by tellers in Congress.
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In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 7 January 2021. FactCheck.org (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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