Trump Wants Campaign Offices In All 50 States

Political Wire ^ | August 12, 2016 | By Taegan Goddard

[Graybeard58]

I read that the Hillary team would like the debate candidates to be able to sit.

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Trump should let hillary sit and he remain standing, to point out the huge difference between them, health wise.

[FenwickBabbitt]

I don’t really see how the Romney scenario could happen. First, there can’t be a tie with one unfaithful elector unless the person votes for Hillary. Doing the math, the numbers don’t add up. Either Hillary or Trump would win outright without it going to the House. So there would have to be more than one (crazy) person doing this.

For there to be a tie after two or more unfaithful electors vote for Romney or someone else, Trump would have had to have won it originally. He would have been declared the winner on election night and would have begun his transition to the presidency before the electoral college vote. He would already be considered the president elect by the country.

There would be a ton of pressure on the Republicans in Congress by their base to give the victory to the person who actually won the electoral college via the vote. If somehow they didn’t, that would be the end of the Republican party and would likely be the impetus to get rid of the electoral college (and probably far more serious reactions). Only Banana Republics nullify elections by placing someone who wasn’t even running in power. We’re not at that point yet. I really don’t think that could happen.

Even if the vote is a legitimate 269-269 without any faithless electors, the Republican party would not survive its congressional representatives selecting Hillary Clinton as president. Any Republican who voted for Hillary would be guaranteed to lose re-election unless he switched parties. Beyond that, it is not an independent individual vote. Each state congressional delegation gets one vote, regardless of size (so Montana gets as much of a vote as California). I didn’t look it up, but I think our side should have enough leeway under these rules that Trump will still win even if a few Republican dominated state delegations turn traitor and go off the rails.

The only real threat I see in the case of a tie or a narrow Trump win is if Hillary can win over enough of Trump’s electors to win the electoral college outright. I don’t even know what the reaction would be to such anti-democratic treachery, but I bet it wouldn’t be pretty.