It’s nice to hear Pence state clearly that he had no right to overturn the election; would’ve been nicer if he’d more strongly said there was no legitimate reason to question the result.
The cowardly dodge here is to make noises about “irregularities,” which is conveniently ambiguous between “real but ultimately trivial issues that arose as a byproduct of doing an election during a pandemic” and “the lunatic conspiracy theories the base now believes."
See, when your respectable friends ask what “irregularities” means, you can point out that the West Slothrop County Registrar authorized additional ballot dropboxes to be installed in a manner inconsistent with subsection B of section 243.2 of the state election code…
… and if the base hears “irregularities” & thinks you mean Venezuelan communists used the cybers to change all the Trump votes into Biden votes, well GOLLY, I never said that, did I? Surely I can’t be blamed for this totally predictable “misinterpetation”!
“Irregularities” is how R politicians who still feel some vestigial shame about lying can do so with plausible deniability. It lets you say something you can argue is technically true, even though you know that what your audience hears is something outrageously false.
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