It won't even matter if Trump has delivered a gracious concession speech the day after Election Day. And Trump will have no choice but to suppress it with military force, which will be framed to be an unwillingness to step aside.
Because they do NOT want a peaceful transition.
Not likely. Only once in 244 years..................
This is what I never understand --
November election results are delayed and confused, and the mail-in ballots muddy the water, and it just becomes an impossible situation. No one can say for sure who won the Presidential race, or how the Electors can be chosen.
And exactly how are the results for the House and Senate more clear?
How does "The newly elected House and Senate" certify the Electoral College in the January? We have no way of knowing who the House and Senate are -- right? Speaker of the House?? Who dat???
Pelosi is Speaker. The Constitution will be laughed at.
If something like this actually occurs and if the Republicans still hold a majority of state delegations, I fully expect Pelosi will do everything she can to delay or even prevent the House from actually holding the contingent election.
Is there a deadline by which votes must be counted prior to this House procedure?
These “scenarios” are trotted out every four years, much like the “the most important election ever” cries from both sides. Reagan won 49 states and amassed 525 electoral votes for his second term in 1984. That’s the landslide we’re looking for!
You can expect state delegations which are from states that voted for Trump but have a tie or majority Democrats in their delegation to override the wishes of their citizens and vote for Biden.
Ridiculous.
If any congressman does so, it would trigger a vote in each chamber on whether to certify the electoral votes in the disputed state or states. Unlike in a contingent election, those votes would be conducted on an individual basis rather than by state delegation, a prospect that Americans of all political parties should hope to avoid.”
This is a pretty low threshold for contesting. I don’t see how the squad will ever resist contesting.
I don’t think that’s a likely scenario.
So what happens if the Senate votes to certify the results and the house votes not to certify the results?
Supreme Court? It's not the best written part of the constitution that I have seen.
The newly elected House and Senate are always required to certify the Electoral College in the January after a presidential election, giving congressmen the chance to challenge the results. If any congressman does so, it would trigger a vote in each chamber on whether to certify the electoral votes in the disputed state or states.
if i recall correctly a challenge must have at least one member from each of the two chambers. There were challenges in 2000, but no US Senator was willing to join any of them, so no challenges were deemed valid.
I dunno. Will they have to attend the junior college? /dumb democrat impression.
Not to argue but I thought it was the currently seated House that casts the votes, not the incoming class which isn't sworn in until early January iirc.
democrats are deliberately doing things now so that the election will be sent to the house of representatives. That is their strategy. They will sue and contest everything. They will make it chaos on election night.
We know what the house will do. The same vicious savages who voted for impeachment will be in charge. That is their plan.
Concurrent with that, will be the riots which they are going to keep going until after the election. The sight of cities burning, and an uncertain outcome of the election, will have the public clamoring for a resolution.
“In the current makeup of the House...”
I may be wrong, but isn’t a contingent election in the House based upon the incoming House of Representatives, not the outgoing?