康威律师：“第12条修正案和《1887选举人团计算法案》已经明确规定，副总统的作用是打开信封（The Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 already make it entirely clear that the Vice President merely opens the envelopes. But sometimes we want to make laws even clearer so that even semiliterate psychopaths have a chance at understanding them.）”

川普的原话是：“不幸的是，他（彭斯副总统）没有行使那个权力，他可以推翻大选（unfortunately, he didn't excercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!）”