Unfortunately for this narrative, in order for any objections to be sustained, they have to be approved by a majority of EACH house of Congress with each member getting one vote.
Since the Democrats will still control the House, there is ZERO chance that there will be a majority in the House to overturn the election and hand it to the Republican candidate.
The procedure where the House only gets one vote per state doesn’t come into play unless enough of the state electoral tallies are successfully objected to and neither candidate has the required 270 electoral votes.
So absolutely nothing will happen on January 6 to derail the Biden presidency, regardless of anything that Pence does or doesn’t do.
He has no authority to unilaterally declare not to accept the tallies of the state electors as presented.
All he can do is announce the results as delivered by the tellers and wait for one member of each house to file a written objection.
Its a purely ministerial act.
3 U.S.C. Section 15
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