“Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, could have approved the 2020 electoral votes on the condition that Congress pass an overhaul of election law.”
What PolitiFact found
A VP wouldn’t have that power, and the Constitution is clear that counting the electoral votes, not legislation, is the joint session's purpose. Such a divisive proposal wouldn't have gotten the needed Democratic backing
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In short
Vivek Ramaswamy (GOP presidential candidate) made this claim around 27 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 August 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Vivek Ramaswamy has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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