the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer.
PRESIDE is not DECIDE
PRESIDING =/= DECIDING
The constitution is clear. He merely performs as officer of the ceremony.
Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision; and the Speaker of theHouse of Representatives shall, in like manner, submit such objections to the House of Representatives for its decision; and no electoral vote or votes from any State which shall have been regularly given by electors whose appointment has been lawfully certified to according to section 6 of this title from which but one return has been received shall be rejected, but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes when they agree that such vote or votes have not been so regularly given by electors whose appointment has been so certified
Did you even watch the ceremony? I did, so as to make sure the law was followed. He did exactly this, to the letter. He asked if there were objections for each and every state vote. When there were objections he followed the constitution as outlined. He had no power to stop it
unless there were objections made BY A SENATOR OR A HOUSE MEMBER.
Only the Senate and house had/has the power to object and then stop the proceedings...and so they did when states like Arizona and Pennsylvania votes were read. Then it's up the Senate AND House to vote separately to KEEP the objection.
Both bodies must keep the objection for it to stand, which was never going to happen because the house has a "dem" majority.
Pence had no power to stop the confirmation of these electoral votes.
He told Trump this. He tried to explain this to the president. But the president didn't want to accept it, and then claimed Pence betrayed him. Then made Pence an enemy.
If any other country did what trump was doing, we'd not hesitate to call that person a dictator.
This behavior is no different from a Kim Jong un or Putin.