Trump sees a 'rigged election' ahead. Democrats see a constitutional crisis in the making.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/25/donald-trump-rigged-election-talk-fears-274477Trump sees a ‘rigged election’ ahead. Democrats see a constitutional crisis in the making.
The president’s increasingly amped-up rhetoric surrounding the integrity of the November elections has many wondering how he might respond to a defeat.
By DAVID SIDERS
05/25/2020 12:21 PM EDT
First he lit into Michigan and Nevada, threatening to withhold federal funding because of his assertion that both states were preparing to commit voter fraud through mail-in ballot applications. Then President Donald Trump followed up Sunday with two more broadly-worded warnings that November would be “the greatest Rigged Election in history.”
“The Democrats are trying to Rig the 2020 Election, plain and simple!” the president claimed.
Trump’s increasingly amped-up rhetoric surrounding the integrity of the November election is beginning to bring to center stage a previously muted conversation. With the president lagging behind Joe Biden in public opinion polls six months before the general election, his opponents are becoming increasingly anxious that Trump may attempt to undermine the results of the election if he loses — or worse, might attempt to cling to power regardless of the outcome.
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“There’s a lot of people that need to do something to hold and implement the results of an election,” said David A. Super, a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center who has analyzed scenarios in which Trump could attempt to hold onto power. “None of them is named Donald J. Trump … There’s absolutely no authority for cancelling or overriding an election in the Constitution or in the statutes. And it would require the president to get multiple people to fairly blatantly disregard their oaths to uphold the Constitution.”
The concerns about Trump’s intentions are reminiscent to some Democrats of the anxiety they felt in the 1970s, when the net was closing around Richard Nixon and some feared he may not go easily.
The difference, said Les Francis, a former deputy White House chief of staff in the Carter administration, is that Nixon made an “institutional decision” to resign, while “one thing we know about Trump, for sure, is he’s not an institutionalist by any stretch of the imagination.”
“I don’t think there’s any depth to which he will not go,” Francis said. “I don’t think there are any rules that he thinks apply to him. As his behavior grows worse, I think people become more alarmed at the possibilities.”
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...but it's been theorized that, should Trump lose in November (both popular vote and electoral college), some states with Republican legislatures might simply refuse to name electors, citing unproven "vote-by-mail fraud," if Biden wins their state. This would allow them to hold Biden short of the 270 electors needed to win, and throw the election to the House.
Still, that shouldn't be an issue, since we control the House, right? Wrong! Because it doesn't work according to a simple vote of House members. Instead, each state gets one vote, determined by a total poll of that state's House delegation, with whoever gets twenty-six or more votes becoming president. So deep-red Wyoming (one Republican congresscritter) gets the exact same vote as deep-blue California (fifty-three, almost overwhelmingly Democratic). Alaska gets the same vote as New York, and so on.
So, depending on how the November House elections go, it's quite conceivable that Trump could lose by a landslide in the popular vote, by a considerable margin in the electoral college, and still get four more years.
And it would all be perfectly Constitutional. 
Thinks the election is rigged? Oh that's Rich, little Donny... That's rich...
Now he just has to find a fall guy willing to do some actual "rigging" someplace so L'il Duce can cry "Told ya!!!!" and cancel the election or something. Pardons for everybody!!!!
That should be included in any AD takedown of this BS in the future?
