But by allowing Trump that much time to drill his own false history of Jan. 6 into GOP voters, Pence and other 2024 rivals may find refuting it now is impossible.
is finally making his fidelity to the Constitution a main feature of his own presidential campaign.
“The simple fact is that a huge majority of GOPers believe that [Joe] Biden didn’t win this election. To them, Pence’s comments fall on deaf ears,” said Republican pollster Neil Newhouse.“I’m glad he’s doing it. It’s probably the only thing he can do to stand up for himself, but it’s not a path to the nomination,” said David Kochel, a veteran Republican strategist from Iowa.
Short, though, acknowledged that Pence is now more aggressively defending his own actions from Trump’s continued lies. “He’s leaning into this. He’s saying, ‘Hell no, I did exactly what I was supposed to do,’” Short stated. But if Pence failed to speak up early and loudly enough, other Republican leaders were even more timid.
As a result, when Trump resumed lying about how the 2020 election had been “stolen” from him during the Conservative Political Action Conference just seven weeks after Jan. 6, few if any GOP leaders refuted him publicly, effectively letting his false, revisionist history of that day become canon within the Republican Party.
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