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Mike Pence To Declare Trump’s Election Loss In Congress Today

<p><em>Mike Pence&comma; Vice President of the United States of America would declare Trump’s loss today<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Mike <strong>Pence<&sol;strong>&comma; the 48th and current vice president of the United States&comma; who assumed office on January 20&comma; 2017&comma; would meet Congress on Wednesday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This online medium gathered that his strategy of obsequiousness to President Donald Trump has come unstuck&period; In a Constitutional twist generations in the making&comma; Pence will Wednesday preside over a Joint Session of Congress that will end with him ceremonially declaring Trump’s election loss&comma; which his boss still refuses to acknowledge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The vice president has spent much of the past four years showering Trump with the praise the President craves&comma; paying tribute in ecclesiastical tones&comma; and gazing at him adoringly&period; He lauds the commander in chief as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;good man&comma;” fawns over Trump&&num;8217&semi;s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;broad-shouldered” leadership and paints his disastrous response to Covid-19 as a model &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;seamless” government effort&period; Pence&comma; an evangelical Christian&comma; also eagerly excused Trump’s moral failings and insults to conservative dogma&comma; apparently in the hope of enlisting his voters for a future White House run&period; &lpar;Failing that&comma; the MAGA crowd will also be the key to riches for the former radio talk-show host as he reenters private life&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Almost uniquely in the President’s<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;"> inner circle&comma;<&sol;a> Pence had long managed to avoid the wrath of a boss who turns on everyone&period; No longer&period; Trump&comma; who met his VP on Tuesday and was seen in animated conversation with him in the Oval Office the day before&comma; seems to be having trouble understanding why Pence can’t just disregard the fact that President-elect Joe Biden won the presidency by 306 electoral votes to Trump&&num;8217&semi;s 232&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pence’s team says he will follow the Constitution and the law &&num;8212&semi; but TV pictures of him congratulating Biden as the next president could be ruinous to his political hopes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I hope Mike Pence comes through for us&comma; I have to tell you&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump said in Georgia on Monday night&comma; in words that must have turned Pence’s soul cold&period; One way or the other on Wednesday&comma; the VP’s tightrope act will crash to earth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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