How Dan Quayle Helped Convince Mike Pence Not to Overturn Election, According to New Book: 'Forget I

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How Dan Quayle Helped Convince Mike Pence Not to Overturn Election, According to New Book: 'Forget It'
Virginia Chamlee
Thu., September 16, 2021, 9:53 a.m.

While Mike Pence was lauded by Democrats — and widely criticized by the president and the Republican base — for his refusal to overturn the results of the election won by Joe Biden in 2020, it turns out that a different vice president may have been responsible for the decision.

In the upcoming book Peril, Robert Costa and Bob Woodward write that then-Vice President Pence reached out to 74-year-old Dan Quayle — who served as vice president from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush — in the waning days of the Trump presidency.

"Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do," Costa and Woodward write, suggesting that Pence was looking for a way to acquiesce to Donald Trump's demands that he reject the electoral votes legally-cast in Biden's favor.

According to the book, Quayle quickly put the kibosh on any effort to overturn the election, telling Pence: "Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away."

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OH THRILL.

ADVICE FROM DAN QUAYLE TO MIKE PENCE. SHEESH!

WHO HIRED THIS CLOWN SHOW, ANYWAY? SIGH.




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I still want to know who the Democrat was that convinced Bush that Quayle would be a good running mate.  The entire Bush Presidency was a setup to lose from Day One.  The Dems were still pissed off that he lost the nomination in 1980, so they did everything to help him get the nod eight years later.  They repeated this with John McCain in 2008.