Vice President Mike Pence is reportedly enraged at President Donald Trump over the way he has acted this week in response to the 2020 election results, a Republican senator said.
Oklahoma GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe reportedly had a "long conversation" with Pence Tuesday night, during which the normally cool-headed vice president conveyed acute frustration to him.
"I've known Mike Pence forever," Inhofe told local news outlet Tulsa World Tuesday. "I've never seen Pence as angry as he was today.
"I had a long conversation with him," Inhofe added. "He said, 'After all the things I've done for [Trump].'"
Over the last week, Trump pressured Pence to use his vice presidential power while presiding over a joint session of Congress Wednesday to block congressional certification of election results in battleground states. The president then publicly attacked Pence for not carrying out the action Wednesday.
Pence issued a statement to Congress on Wednesday before gaveling in the joint session, in which he concluded that he could not constitutionally claim "unilateral authority" to reject states' electoral votes.
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04.26.2024