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Oct 2024
35m 3s

How Much Power Vice Presidents Really Ha...

Attorney J. Craig Williams and Legal Talk Network
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The role of the Vice President of the United States is an important one, but what actual power does it hold? Recently, vice president candidate JD Vance spoke publicly about the power of the vice presidency, the role of presiding over the electoral count as President of the Senate, and what he would have done if he was in former Vice President Mike Pence’s s ... Show More
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