Except he can't since that isn't within the powers of the Vice President to do.

It wasn't the "easy way out", it was the only way out. You don't get to complain about election laws being broken and then proceed to break election laws, or are you another smooth brain like one of the other respndents here who think that the Constitution is just "dead ink on paper"?

Where's the outrage over Trump not invoking the Insurrection Act?