Former Vice President Mike Pence praises strength of Constitution at MTSU event. Says He Will Not Vote for Kamala Harris

by  IVAN ARONIN, The Cheatham County Exchange, Sept. 19, 2024 - Former Vice President Mike Pence, who had a decisive role in one of the country’s more significant Constitutional crises of the past 50 years, spoke about that event and other political topics during Middle Tennessee State University’s annual Constitution Day observance on Sept. 17. ...

Pence, who served as Vice President from 2017-2021 under Donald Trump, said he followed his Constitutional role of certifying each state’s Electoral College votes from the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. Hundreds of people who believed the votes and Electoral College process had been done illegally broke through doors and windows of the Capitol, demanding that Pence not certify the votes.

Despite repeated requests from the Secret Service to leave the Capitol, Pence remained in the building and completed the certification process early in the morning of Jan. 7, 2021.

“The key date was not January 6 three years ago; it was that day in January of 2019 when I took that oath of office (to defend the Constitution) not only to the American people but also to Almighty God,” said Pence, who was introduced at the MTSU event as a “hero of the U.S. Constitution.”

He added a military-like analysis of his actions and decisions on Jan. 6. 

“I stayed at my post. I was not afraid,” Pence said. “I was angry, saying ‘Not this, not in America.’ I will always look at January 6 as the day the Constitution held.”

Pence’s former boss is now the Republican nominee for President. At the end of the program, Pence was to reveal his voting choice for the 2024 election

“I have debated (Democratic nominee) Kamala Harris on national TV. She developed her radical philosophy in California, and she may have been the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate,” he said, then in a much louder voice, “I will not vote for Kamala Harris.”

.... “It is absolutely essential to the United States to face the debt crises,” he said. “Both parties have walked away from policies that would get our financial house in order. We must restore our fiscal integrity.”

Pence said that he views the country’s multi-trillion-dollar debt also as a moral crisis “because we must stop taking money away from our children and grandchildren.” (Read it all)

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