In short, when the Colorado and Minnesota cases arrive in Washington, the Supreme Court will confront a desperate race against time. If it fails to decide the cases rapidly, it will provoke a constitutional crisis once the polls close and each state decides who won the election. Under current law, state legislatures must report their Electoral College winners in time for Vice President Kamala Harris to report the results to a joint session of Congress meeting on Jan. 6, 2025. Once she inspects the ballots, she is likely to find that none of the three candidatesāneither Biden, nor Trump, nor Trumpās proxyāhas won a majority of the electoral votes. At this point, Harris will confront a dilemma that will make Vice President Mike Penceās predicament in 2021 seem modest by comparison.
I totally agree that itās a possible scenario, but they said that itās likely to happen. Likely is doing a ton of heavy lifting there. I still go with the Trump winning as being far worse since heās going full dictator before even running. Heās telling everyone thatās what heās going to do and what he and his fellow rās are planning.
The problem in this scenario (however likely) is that if Democrats donāt take back the House in 2024, Republicans get to pick the next President. In the event that the Electoral College fails to identify a clear winner, the House gets to decide who should be President. Iām not willing to bet there are enough ānever Trumpersā in the House to avoid installing him anyway.
Even if dems win a majority in the house, they may not have a majority of state delegations. the house vote is by state delegation.
Right, good point.
Wouldnāt the former VP certify before that would happen though?I see, youāre saying if someone didnāt reach the 270. I canāt believe we have to discuss these technicalities for a coup, I hope to god there are people working on this. Between the rās blocking all of the military promotions, the election gerrymandering and now this, we canāt watch our country get taken away in slow-mo by him again.