Mike Pence could, even now, send all slates back to be affirmed or denied by the most important and direct, most representative and diverse, spokespeople for the People, the sundry State legislatures. According to his stated and supposed principle, this would be the most honest course of action.
There is no precedent, at least in modern history, for this, but there is equally no precedent for installing as President a msn who used massive national fraud to “win”, and who has taken large bribes AT LEAST from the Chinese and Ukrainians.
By Pence’s “logic” all future frauds will necessarily be rubber stamped if the fraud can be used to win majorities in both national legislative bodies.
Here is the reality: many of the people sitting now in the House and Senate ALSO do not belong there, but if we hand the Presidency to an ally of the cheating that got them there we may never have an honest election again.
If Pence is jn fact an honest man, he needs to do the honest thing. And if he fails, maybe Linn Wood was right. To my mind the logic is clear, and the stakes obviously enormous.
Just send them back, Mr. Vice President, so we can get the voice and stamp of the State Legislatures. Then it is an honest vote that honest people will accept. Anything else is a travesty of integrity, democracy, principle, and the American Way.