Pence says 'Trump is wrong' to say then-vice president had the right to overturn 2020 election

Former Vice President Mike Pence called out his former boss by name on Friday, saying that "President (Donald) Trump is wrong" in claiming that Pence had the right to overturn the 2020 election on January 6, 2021.

Speaking at the Federalist Society Florida Chapters conference near Orlando, Pence delivered his strongest response yet to Trump's ongoing efforts to relitigate the 2020 presidential election, calling it "un-American" to suggest one person could have decided the outcome.

Pence warned against conservatives who continue to insist the vice president can alter an election, and said it could be a problematic position for Republicans in the next presidential contest.

"Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election, and (Vice President) Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024," Pence said.

Pence's remarks followed one of Trump's latest attempts to blame the failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election on his former vice president.

In a statement Sunday, Trump suggested that a recent bipartisan push to revise the counting of Electoral College votes by Congress was proof that Pence had the power to change the results.

The effort to revamp the Electoral Count Act, and clarify that the vice president's role in tallying the vote is ceremonial, is moving quickly in the Senate with the support of GOP Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

"What they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away," Trump said in the statement. "Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!"

The former President reiterated the claim in a Friday statement reacting to Pence's comments earlier in the day.