{"id":69712,"date":"2021-06-18T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69712"},"modified":"2021-06-18T16:18:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:18:52","slug":"pence-booed-as-traitor-at-conservative-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69712","title":{"rendered":"Pence Booed as &#8220;Traitor&#8221; at Conservative Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mike Pence was booed and heckled with chants of &#8216;TRAITOR!&#8217; at a conservative conference<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Grace Panetta<br \/>\nInsider<\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"post-content typography \" data-track-content=\"\" data-post-type=\"post\">\n<div id=\"piano-inline-content-wrapper\" data-piano-inline-content-wrapper=\"\">\n<div data-component-type=\"content-lock\">\n<div class=\"content-lock-content\">\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Former VP Mike Pence was booed and heckled with chants of &#8220;Traitor!&#8221; at a conservative conference.<\/li>\n<li>Pence, widely expected to run for president in 2024, appeared at a Faith &amp; Freedom Coalition event.<\/li>\n<li>Trump and his supporters have attacked Pence for not trying to overturn the 2020 election.<\/li>\n<li id=\"recirc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/?hprecirc-bullet\" data-analytics-module=\"summary_bullets\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"0\" data-uri=\"f0e80ded5d35b2778c5da3bdda2e6898\">See more stories on Insider&#8217;s business page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence was booed and heckled with chants of &#8220;Traitor!&#8221; while speaking at a conservative conference in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Pence, who is widely expected to run for president in 2024,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kktv.com\/2021\/06\/18\/former-vp-mike-pence-addresses-faith-freedom-coalition\/\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"40\" data-uri=\"18baf62e586132bf0bb3fe94f53b2e34\">appeared at the Faith &amp; Freedom Coalition&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Road to the Majority&#8221; conference in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>As Pence took the stage, the beginning of his remarks was drowned out by people in the crowd yelling &#8220;traitor!&#8221; But the crowd turned to applause when Pence said: &#8220;I&#8217;m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican in that order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1405934253741903875&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fvideo-mike-pence-booed-heckled-with-traitor-chant-at-conference-2021-6&amp;sessionId=f097f74a4a937a8c9fa02f2dc304116576ef8e12&amp;siteScreenName=PoliticsInsider&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1405934253741903875\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;traitor&#8221; chants were likely in reference to Pence refusing to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he did not have the power to do.<\/p>\n<p>For months and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-pence-should-have-gone-back-tried-to-overturn-election-2021-3\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"60\" data-uri=\"1aba5de5a2b91b5e6bbfdb5c30972908\">as recently as March 2021<\/a>, former President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed that former Vice President Mike Pence could have summarily rejected entire states&#8217; Electoral College votes at the January 6 joint session of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s too bad Mike Pence didn&#8217;t go back, because you would have had a much different result had Mike Pence gone \u2014 he could have said, &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry, but this was not approved by the state legislature, and according to the Constitution, it had to be,'&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-pence-should-have-gone-back-tried-to-overturn-election-2021-3\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"60\" data-uri=\"1aba5de5a2b91b5e6bbfdb5c30972908\">Trump told Fox News&#8217; Lisa Boothe in a March podcast interview<\/a>, falsely tacking on: &#8220;Mike Pence could have sent it back. He could have said, &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry, but you have to check this out.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks leading up to the joint session of Congress to count electoral votes on January 6, Trump used his now-suspended Twitter account\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrumparchive.com\/?searchbox=%22pence%22\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"80\" data-uri=\"8d6c9ba90fee5f23b65f3b1ad39b7c06\">to pressure Pence into subverting the election results.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And during the January 6 insurrection, in which a pro-Trump mob, rioters were heard making comments like &#8220;hang Mike Pence!&#8221; as they searched for the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>But Pence did not have the power to reject entire states&#8217; electoral college vote certificates unilaterally or to &#8220;send back&#8221; the certificates in the hopes that state legislatures would override a vote from the electors of their states.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Congress was not certifying the election, but rather counting certificates of the presidential results submitted by states.<\/p>\n<p>Under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/reviews\/out?platform=browser&amp;postSource=bi%7C6058ab66fadd1974a65c0d6d&amp;sc=false&amp;sessionid=1624035467073h3knc6kc&amp;type=ALREADY-AFFILIATE-LINK-NOT-AMAZON&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.squarespace.com%2Fstatic%2F5e70e52c7c72720ed714313f%2Ft%2F5f59223d94b21d2ebe8e6957%2F1599676990875%2FElectoral%2BCount%2BAct.pdf\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"100\" data-uri=\"a3470c21fc73350f6e705ecce9f97b32\">the parameters of the Electoral Count Act of 1887<\/a>, Pence only had a ceremonial role, as Senate president, to oversee the counting of certificates and to field objections to the counting of states&#8217; electoral votes from members of Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/video-mike-pence-booed-heckled-with-traitor-chant-at-conference-2021-6\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/video-mike-pence-booed-heckled-with-traitor-chant-at-conference-2021-6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Pence was booed and heckled with chants of &#8216;TRAITOR!&#8217; at a conservative conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}