A vice president cannot overturn a presidential election.

John F. Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize for biography for his Profiles in Courage that described eight senators who, on principle, resisted enormous pressure from their party and constituents.

I nominate former Vice President Mike Pence for the ninth.

First, he defied his boss, Donald Trump, by not overturning the former president’s demands that the former vice president overturn the presidential election.

Now, when Trump repeated his assertion, Pence stood in front of a conservative audience and the nation, to plainly say that the former president was wrong.

Damn straight, he was.

I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong. The Presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. And frankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American President.

Bravo.

Of course the egomaniac couldn’t help himself and repeated his attack on Pence. The left’s conventional wisdom is that Pence has ” crashed his political career” by standing up to Trump and the “deplorables” that love him and supposedly will blindly and ignorantly follow him over the cliff.

I sense perhaps not. Already, some prominent Republicans are publicly agreeing with Pence. Reports The Hill: “Republicans back Pence rebuke of Trump on overturning 2020 election.”

Of course, they’ll be accused of being “RINOS” (Republicans in Name Only). But being a Republican ought not and does not mean that you support Trump and his possible run for president in 2024.

He’s a sure loser–no way does his “base” have enough votes alone for him to win. But he will win the nomination if the GOP primary vote for another candidate is diluted by an excessive number of other candidates–as happened in 2016.

The Republicans have a plethora of more qualified and attractive candidates. The party needs more courageous people like Pence if they want to regain the White House.

Related: Mike Pence’s Constitution

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