Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Monday went after Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) for choosing not to certify the 2020 election results without a professional advocate. “I am not fit to serve as a member of parliament,” he said in response to the statement. -Trump elector.
Vance said Sunday in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” that he would have allowed states to send multiple electoral votes to Washington after the 2020 election, saying “Congress should have gone from there.” , added that the 2020 election was “problematic.”
“Yesterday, J.D. Vance claimed that President Trump could defy a Supreme Court decision as president,” Cheney said. I wrote to X, formerly Twitter. “Mr. Vance also acknowledged that he would have done what Vice President Pence refused to do on January 6th: assist Mr. Trump in his illegal seizure of power.”
“It’s tyranny,” she continued. “Neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Vance are fit to serve.”
Then-Vice President Mike Pence refused to recognize multiple slates of electors for the certification of the 2020 election, as required by the Constitution, and on January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump The results were finally certified after supporters stormed the Capitol. try to stop it.
Vance also quoted President Andrew Jackson, reinforcing his September 2021 comments that presidents can ignore “unjust” Supreme Court rulings.
“The presiding judge has ruled. Now let’s let him enforce it,” Vance was quoted on a 2021 podcast.jackson made a comment In 1832, in defiance of a Supreme Court decision that established the supremacy of federal law over the states in matters of Native American tribes. Jackson later forcibly removed the southern tribes from their territory.
“The Constitution says the Supreme Court can rule, but if the Supreme Court says the president of the United States can’t fire a general, that would be an unjust ruling,” Vance said Sunday.
Later in the interview, Vance also said the verdict in the New York case against former President Trump should be thrown out, citing jurors from “far-left jurisdictions.”
Mr. Cheney and Mr. Vance have clashed in the past. She endorsed her opponent in the 2022 general election, then-Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio). Vance’s campaign denied this support: “Kiss of Death” For Ryan at the time.
The Hill has reached out to Vance’s office for comment.
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