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Not necessarily, and not even likely. This scenario involves Pence and his team getting caught up in the mob, who takes their anger (rage? disappointment?) out on him. Or put enough of a scare into him that he decides that he's not going to stick to his guns.
No, no, no, no - this scenario is based on the left wing narrative that Trump incited an armed mob to go down the to Capitol and overthrow the government. There's not any of this where Pence gets a choice - they were coming for him according to the Tall Tales of January 6 that we've been graced with in the media and on this board.
Unless they were successful in stopping the certification for more than a couple of hours.
How, exactly?
There were only a few dozen (and that's being generous) nutjobs. They had pepper spray and signs. Not automatic rifles. As you yourself admitted, the second this bloodthirsty, insurrection-y, violent mob incited by Trump to overthrow the government ran into Pence's protective detail it wouldn't have gone well for them.
...the big national plot was the effort to create "alternate" slates of electors, sow enough confusion in the Congress that the elected Republicans refuse to certify Biden's win, and therefore overthrow the transition of power to the person who won the election. Not the mob storming the Bast....the Capitol Building. Autogolpes don't involve overthrowing the government - they involve holding power that has been legitimately transferred to another.
Again, we're playing out the B-movie narrative that every left wing journalist in the country has been braying about for 3 and half years.
