Put it away,” Quayle reportedly said.īefore the melee of Jan. Regardless, as luck would have it, Quayle performed above his weight class and delivered the correct verdict. Either Pence was looking for a way to satisfy Trump’s order to invalidate the election or he wanted more assurances he couldn’t do it. There’s not much heroism at work when a blockhead, caught in a squeeze by his boss, asks a dunce for advice. To that end, Pence asked fellow Hoosier and former Vice President Dan Quayle if there was any way he could pause certification. Instead of doing any of these things, Pence searched for a way to satisfy Trump’s order to invalidate the election, according to Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s Peril. Last called the former veep a hero for resisting Trump’s browbeating, for ignoring Trump threats and for refusing what appear to have been Secret Service instructions to evacuate from the Capitol complex, instead returning to the Joint Session to perform the prescribed duties that would elevate Biden to president. Writing in the Atlantic, Bulwark editor Jonathan V. Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, dubbed Pence a hero on national television. ![]() ![]() Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, thinks Pence’s actions were “heroic,” as does Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker. ![]() There’s no shortage of notables who regard Pence as some kind of savior of democracy for simply counting the electoral votes as every vice president has done before. 6 decision to uphold the Constitution? Was it really such an act of “bravery” for Pence to patiently listen to the legal advice of President Donald Trump and his B-team attorney John Eastman to deny Joe Biden the presidency, only to ultimately rebuff their guidance and do the right thing? Shall we crown Mike Pence in hero’s laurel and salute him for his Jan. Jack Shafer is Politico ’s senior media writer.
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