Mike Pence
US Vice President Mike Pence refused to change the election results at the behest of incumbent President Donald Trump. This is reported by The New York Times, citing its sources.
According to the American publication, the vice president told Trump that he did not have the necessary powers to suspend the approval of electoral votes at the joint session of the US Congress on January 6. Pence, as President of the Senate, will preside over this session, in which Congressmen will have to officially confirm the victory of the Democratic nominee in Joe Biden's November 3 election.
Earlier, Trump said that the vice president has the right to review the results of the presidential election. According to the president, Pence has all the necessary powers to invalidate electors who have been fraudulently elected in disputed states.
On November 3, 2020, regular presidential elections were held in the United States. The counting of votes and the proceedings on this issue are still ongoing. According to the media, Biden received the necessary number of electoral votes to win, thus surpassing the current American leader Donald Trump. The democrat has already proclaimed himself the elected president of the United States. Trump, in turn, said that Biden was in a hurry to call himself the country's new leader.
