Pence defies Trump, says he can’t reject electoral votes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence says he doesn’t have the power to discard electoral votes that will make Democrat Joe Biden the next president on Jan. 20.That’s what Pence says in a statement issued minutes before he was to begin presiding over a joint session of Congress to count those votes.Pence says it is “my considered judgement that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral auth