Mike Bens is exposed to severe pressures by Donald Trump

Washington Post newspaper confirmed that US vice-president Mike Bens is exposed to severe pressures by President Donald Trump and some Republican politicians and hardline supporters to Trump to hinder the measures of declaring the winning of elected president Joe Biden.

While the newspaper quoted two Lebanese assistants as hoping for a quiet role on 6 January and not planning any unnecessary drama, and that he aspires to a trip abroad after a short time, it said that some hardline Trump supporters say that Bence will be a traitor if he does not hinder the measures in some way. She pointed out that there is no clear way to do that even if Benz wants, but such demands increase pressure on him, and it is unlikely that he will escape anger or Trump's anger.

She revealed that Trump only recently realized that Pence could play a prominent role that day and was asking his partners, including Pence, what could be done to block Biden's victory. Trump was angered by a group called the “Lincoln Project” recently broadcast a declaration indicating that Pence had given up the president.

Advisers said the vice president had sought to avoid the appearance of being split from the president, while trying to avoid repeating some of Trump's most aggressive speeches, but for weeks he remained close to the center of desperate chaotic efforts to keep Trump in office.

Last week, Pence attended meetings in the White House with conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives, who are determined to challenge the results in the joint Congress session. A person familiar with the meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Bence told them that his constitutional duty will be to open the promise of results, not to determine its legitimacy.

Benes urged the young, conservative activists’ public earlier last week to “stay on the lookout,” where they “spent another 4 years” and “stop the theft” to express their embrace of the idea that Trump was the real victor of the recent election.

“I will give you a promise,” Benes told those young people. We will continue fighting until every legal voice is counted, and we will continue fighting until every illegal vote is eliminated.”

But the paper says that in less than two weeks, Pence will have to declare the end of the fighting and the loss of Trump, as the joint session of the Congress on January 6 will take the last step in formalizing Biden's victory, and Pence will preside over this session.

“Trump Bans may say go and declare our re-election,” said Joel Goldstein, a professor at St. Louis University’s Law School, adding that Benes should not engage in behavior that threatens the country’s democratic institutions.

It points out that rumors about Pence's authority in the joint session were greatly exaggerated. Some Trump's supporters insist that he can use his role to nullify the results from different states.

The Washington Post made clear that this is a misunderstanding of what is in US law, which limits a vice president’s role to urging a state to send its electoral votes quickly if it does not submit them by December 4, and does not give him the power to reject an election vote.

But Trump wants drama and no backsliding on his plan. Trump, a senior administration official said, is “angry with everyone,” not just with Pence, because he wants his entire team to fight.

The report indicated that the danger that Bence faces may lie in that the shots of his declaration in the winning Biden may harm his political horizons inside the Republican Party, especially if Bence seeks presidency in 2024.

Goldstein said, “I believe that what a vice president can do is really very limited, but one thing he can do is to help unite the country and emphasize the fact that we are committed to the rule of law in democracy.”