Vice President Mike Pence, in Wednesday’s debate against Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, responded to a question about a peaceful transfer of power by saying that a condition for having confidence in the result is that the election is “free and fair.”
Pence was asked by the moderator at the Salt Lake City debate what his role and responsibility would be “if vice president Biden is declared the winner and President Trump refuses to accept a peaceful transfer of power.” The question was presumably prompted by statements President Donald Trump made in which he declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and, later saying he would accept a Supreme Court decision adjudicating the result of a potentially contested election while calling the massive expansion of mail-in balloting “a horror show.”
