Trump allies have floated this as a possible path in recent days.Ĭongressional Chaos? On Jan. Congress could end up having to sort out competing slates of electors. But the opportunity for mischief remains if Republican legislatures in Biden-won states, for example, decide to appoint a slate of pro-Trump electors if they are convinced the result was fraudulent. Then the Supreme Court ruled that states can punish so-called faithless electors to make sure they stick with their assigned candidate.
It didn’t happen, as only seven electors rebelled - some against Hillary Clinton and some against Trump. In 2016, there was an extensive effort to get Republican electors to ditch President-elect Trump and throw the election into chaos. 14, the winning electors meet in state Capitols to cast their votes for president and vice president. After the vote is complete in each state, the governor must certify the result, with all contests and disputes resolved by Dec.
You’ve been playing with your map to 270 electoral votes for a while, but who are those electors and how do they pick a president? Your vote for president goes to pick not Biden or Trump, but the electors, who are typically chosen by their respective state parties. Given Trump’s stance, a traditional meeting between the incoming and outgoing presidents or Trump’s attendance at the inauguration are highly doubtful. While the transition has already formally begun, the GSA must agree in order for the Biden transition to have additional funds and office space, among other things. The Trump political appointee at the General Services Administration (GSA) is delaying signing the transition paperwork for Biden, an indication that the Trump administration will throw sand in the gears at every opportunity. Such claims were debunked in Michigan, as what tends to happen in these cases is election officials confuse sons with their dead fathers of the same name. The election challenge is going to look like a continuation of the campaign: Trump reportedly plans to stage more rallies to bolster his case that the election was stolen, where he will brandish obituaries of people who voted to demonstrate fraud. The Trump campaign will continue to bring various legal cases alleging fraud across Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania as well - but his claims have flopped so far due to lack of evidence, as attorney Rudy Giuliani asks his Twitter followers to send in tips. Recounts don’t tend to change more than a few hundred votes, but there will be a recount in Georgia, where Trump trails by around 10,000 votes, and he is trying to raise money to fund one in Wisconsin, where he is down by 20,000. So what do the next 10 weeks and a post-presidency look like for Trump? Let’s play out the scenarios in today’s OZY Special Dispatch. Plus, he fired his defense secretary today. After media organizations called the election for Joe Biden, Trump refused to concede and has vowed to continue his quixotic legal quest to prove voter fraud and invalidate tens of thousands of votes in key states.
Like so many aspects of the Donald Trump presidency, the end won’t be normal.
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