GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz said he was 'quite disappointed' Pence wasn't 'motivated' to overturn the 2020 election re

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz said he was 'quite disappointed' Pence wasn't 'motivated' to overturn the 2020 election results
By kbalevic@insider.com (Katie Balevic)

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz said he was "quite disappointed" that former Vice President Mike Pence did not overturn the 2020 election.

Gaetz made the comments on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast over the weekend.

Pence last week broke with former President Donald Trump and said he did not have the authority to change the election results.

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said he was "disappointed" in former Vice President Mike Pence when he did not attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Gaetz, while speaking on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast on Saturday, detailed his final meeting in the White House with the then-vice president. He said those in favor of overturning the election had assembled "substantive arguments that we thought would be persuasive to state legislatures who were looking for a signal to take more aggressive action to not maintain the fiction of elections that were not run fairly."

But, Pence did not bite, Gaetz said.

"I knew then that he was not going to show a great deal of boldness before the Congress," said Gaetz, who is under investigation by the US Department of Justice for potential violations of s*x-trafficking laws, prompting Bannon to ask if it was because Pence "didn't understand the content of what had gone on."

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