President Donald Trump asserted on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence has the power to reject electors that were fraudulently chosen, echoing statements made by his legal team in recent days ahead of Jan. 6’s Joint Session of Congress. “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors,” Trump wrote on Tuesday in a tweet. Republicans have been increasingly putting more pressure on Pence, who serves as the president of the Senate and will oversee the certification of the Electoral College vote. At least a dozen Republican senators and dozens of House representatives have pledged to object to states’ electoral votes, which then is slated to trigger an hourslong debate before a simple-majority vote is held on whether to certify a state’s electoral votes. “I know we all have got our doubts about the last election,” Pence told a crowd of supporters in Georgia on Monday, adding that …
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