Former Vice President Mike Pence’s ex-chief of staff, Marc Short, on Sunday defended him in his escalating spat with Donald Trump over a vice president’s role in certifying an election.
“I think, unfortunately, the president had many bad advisors who were basically snake oil salesmen, giving him really random and novel ideas as to what the vice president could do,” Short told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet The Press.”
Pence on Friday gave his strongest rebuke yet of Trump’s push to have him block the certification of President Joe Biden’s win on Jan. 6, 2021, saying, “President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election.”
