Posted on 02/06/2022 7:25:50 AM PST by RandFan
@ChadPergram
Barrasso on Fox: I voted to certify the election and I think Mike Pence did his constitutional duty that day. It's not the Congress that elects the President, it is the American people.
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Discuss.
the states actually
Give it a rest.
It is neither.
We do not have a popular vote, so it isn’t “the people.”
Congress has no say in the matter except to accept or reject the ELECTORS chosen by the vote of the people in each state.
Technically, the electors elect the president. Some states have “faithless elector” laws saying that the electors must vote for the choice of the people in the election, but not all. Originally, the electors were entirely on their own.
Another American politician who has perhaps been in the same room as a text of the Constitution but has never bothered to read it.
If only Congress would do its job, which is to legislate, the courts could be held in check. Instead, Congre$$ has failed us. We have failed us.
They coordinate the "elections" which are used to communicate their choice to the American people.
I think I read that in the Constitution somewhere...
The question is why did the Founders insist that Congress and the VP certify the election results?
If not to reject fraudulent elections than why do those powers exist?
According to Ammendment 12, it’s the electors that sign and certify counts.
VP opens certificates and they are counted. If there is a majority, that person is Prez.
He’s routinely in the squad that shows up whenever McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Graham, etc, get in front of some microphones and cameras.
Barasso, like so many others in the Senate, is the face and definition of The Swamp.
If anything, the folks in Wyoming have some thinking to do about putting Barasso and Cheney out of work.
It’s the states that have the power of the vote. That is the whole popes of the electoral college. It is setup so the most populated states do not have a monopoly on Presidential elections.
Congress has oversight.
Unless terms are defined this turns into a pissing contest over the meaning of “the people”.
If the states with “problems” had sent competing slates of electors Pence, etc. would have had precedent to stand on. Without that that those states were saying ‘yeah it’s a smelly single slate but we still say it’s ok’. Effectively they were saying they were fine with fraud and why not we’ve let it go on in those areas for decades because of fear of the race card. Now it cost us!
Because, those guys, coming from where they did, having just gone through a war, with a desire for freedom, NEVER thought that the government they created would ever be so incredibly and inexplicably corrupt.
They actually thought that our elected officials would stately true to the citizen-statesman ideal and not subvert the country to get rich and do the bidding of their donors, the Chamber of Commerce, the Kochs, Wall St and China.
No, it is the electors selected by the sovereign states that elect the president.
Discussing the notion of who elects the POTUS is a magicians trick to hide the third rail of truth about what VP Pence could or could not do in regards to the election. The question of whether Congress or the people elect the President is a waste of calories. The real question to focus on is: Did the VP have authority to pause the final electoral count until the question of voting irregularities in certain states was resolved? I believe he did! Since this occurred, the courts have ruled that the practice of unchecked mail in voting was unconstitutional.
Does he care?
Didn't think so.
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