Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday offered his most forceful rebuke of Donald Trump, saying that Trump is "wrong” that Pence had the legal authority to change the results of the 2020 election and that the Republican Party must accept the outcome and look toward the future.

Speaking to a gathering of conservatives near Orlando, Florida, the former vice president said he understands "the disappointment so many feel about the last election” but repudiated Trump’s false claims that Pence could reject Electoral College results and alter the outcome last year.

"President Trump is wrong,” said Pence, in his remarks before the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization. "I had no right to overturn the election.”