Mike Pence is being held out as the potential savior of a fair election

Does not seem likely to me, sadly.

 Andrea Widburg

Ivan Raiklin, a constitutional lawyer, claims that the Constitution grants Mike Pence the power to overturn a manifestly fraudulent election.

. . .  A few observations:

1. I'm not a constitutional scholar, so I don't know if this idea is valid.

2. Trump's retweeting it does not make it valid.  He may just have been charmed by the idea.

3. Trump's retweeting it does suggest, however, that Trump still believes he has some tricks up his sleeve regarding the election.

4. Raiklin's tweet, which went out on Tuesday, asked Pence to send out his letters on Wednesday, something that did not happen.  This video indicates that Wednesday may or may not have been a drop-dead deadline:

 5. This idea puts enormous pressure on Pence.  He has proven to be a rock of stability and competence.  He's also a man of deep faith and patriotism, both of which contribute to courage.  And courage is what Pence would need to act on this legal advice.

America was built on the courage of extraordinary men.  When the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, each man knew he might, at that moment, have signed his death certificate, for each signature was a hanging offense.  Likewise, when the American patriots took up their arms, they risked not only dying in battle; they too risked hanging for treason.

"If Raiklin is right about the law, and the publicly and privately available information about election fraud make it patently clear that Trump won the 2020 election, will Vice President Pence have the courage to act?"