Trump Says He and Pence are in ‘Total Agreement’ VP Can Decertify Results and Overturn U.S. Election

Donald Trump on Tuesday night disputed a report in the New York Times that Vice President Mike Pence had told the president that “he did not believe he had the power to block congressional certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the presidential election despite Mr. Trump’s baseless insistence that he did.”

Pence is set to oversee certification of the election results on Wednesday. A coalition of Republican congressional allies is expected to object to those results amid that certification process.

Said Trump in a statement: “The New York Times report regarding comments Vice President Pence supposedly made to me today is fake news. He never said that. The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act. Our

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