Pence echoes Trump's Big Lie in dishonest op-ed on election rules

In an opinion article published on Wednesday, former Vice President Mike Pence did something he used to do in office: echo a lie from former President Donald Trump in a slightly more sophisticated way.

Pence's op-ed, published on the Daily Signal website run by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, was mostly filled with attacks on a Democratic elections reform bill known as HR 1.
But Pence also made claims about what happened in the 2020 election. Most notably, he began the article by claiming that the election involved "significant voting irregularities."
Unlike Trump, Pence did not say the election involved significant "fraud." But he left his vaguer claim about "voting irregularities" wide open for readers to interpret as an endorsement of Trump's fraud lie.