Mike Pence offers to provide transition guidance to Kamala Harris [View all]
If you're Kamala, do you meet with Mike to see if there's anything of value to be gleaned, or do you tell him to go pound sand?
WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence reached out to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Thursday, sources familiar with the situation said, marking the first contact at that level between the outgoing and incoming administrations.
Pence has increasingly taken on the public roles involved in government transition. President Donald Trump, despite pledging to work toward a smooth transfer of power, has not contacted President-elect Joe Biden or explicitly acknowledged that Biden won the November election. Trump spent the weeks since the Nov. 3 election questioning its integrity and claiming falsely that he won.
Pence certified Biden and Harris’s electoral win in Congress last week after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in attempt to stop the process. Pence faced strong pressure from the president to intervene in an attempt to throw the election Trump’s way.
The vice president has trips scheduled this weekend to say goodbye to troops.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pence-harris/pence-calls-harris-to-offer-assistance-ahead-of-us-power-transfer-next-week-idUSKBN29K2IV
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