trump: It could take years to find out who won the presidential election

[ashling]

Hmm mm.....quite a conundrum he has set up.

Perhaps he is thinking that by keeping it in court "for years" that he would continue serving as fake president.

An individual who reads as much as he says he does and has the astounding comprehension that he claims to have would have certainly noticed that there are few problems with that scenario.:

The election for the house would certainly not take years - each legislative district being much much smaller than the presidential constituency. The new House goes into session on Jan. 3, while the presidential inauguration is Jan. 21.

As I understand it, the law states that the current (fake)president and vice president leave office at 12:00 on innauguration day. Assuming that there is no clear winner because of donald's legal shenanigans then we would, of course, default to the Speaker of the House until the question is decided.

Nancy Pelosi would then choose a vp to be approved by the House. Who better than Joe Biden. If Nancy steps down, Joe would be president and could nominate his vp ... yada, yada, yada.

[marybourg]

1. Is it really 12:00 on Inauguration Day? Because if there's no one to inaugurate,

there can be no Inauguration Day. And so . . .

[ashling]

4. Speaker of the House, baby!

[PatSeg]

13. After all these years

he really doesn't know how our system works, just how he wants it to work.

[MoonRiver]

17. Years mean nothing when you're brain dead.

[Lock him up.]

20. Nancy would be the lawful lawmaker to become

President Of The United States.

The mandate of the cRiminal mob boss and his pence, barr, pompeo (and company) enablers ends at noon on Inauguration Day.

RICO TRUMP$ AND ACCOMPLICE$
ESTABLISH EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL

[33taw]

2. I think the House members term also expires. We would then go to President Pro Tempore of the

Senate. Without an election the Senate would be controlled by Democrats. I think Patrick Leahy would be in line at that point (I could be incorrect).

[ashling]

7. The new House come into session on Jan 3.

whereupon the choose a new speaker. The House overlaps the presidential term.

[33taw]

21. Without and election on Nov. 3rd, the house will not come into session. Their terms will expire.

[Scully]

26. Pretty sure you're right

about clearest (and least contestable) line of succession being President Pro Tempore of the Senate, who would be selected from the majority party Senators whose terms were not up for re-election this year. It’s traditional for Pres Pro Tem to be the most tenured Senator- so Leahy- but it’s not mandated. They could technically select any sitting Senator they want....

[C_U_L8R]

3. He's conceded defeat to Biden.

Now he's just kicking up dust to sully the legitimacy of Biden's victory.

Trump is the epitome of a sore loser. Before he's even lost.

[Totally Tunsie]

9. +1

[crickets]

24. Yes, it's just empty threats from the wanna-be grade school bully. Sad.

[IggleDuer]

5. Waiting for the Siberian vote, Donnie?

N/T

[CaptYossarian]

6. Good thing Al Haig is dead.

[ashling]

8. Interesting, although completely irrelevant aside.....

When I delivered the Sunday New York times in McClean Va some years ago, Al Haig was on my route. He took the Sunday Times every other week (when he wasn't at his place in New York.) I always turned into his circular drive to put it at the doorstep as instructed)

One Sunday we had at least 4 inches of snow. But rain, sleet, snow, blah,blah, blah. So I turned into his drivesay ... and promptly got stuck in the snow. The unfortunate thing was that he was out of town that week and couldn't come out to be in charge ... so I had to dig myself out of the snow.

[CaptYossarian]

14. The "being in charge" was the joke.

Incidentally, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

I think I'll just blend the History Channel with Comedy Central.

[beachbumbob]

10. pure nonsense, this election will not be close on any level and we will know in a day

the winner pending final tallies.

[ashling]

12. I know, but

when did reality ever get in the way of a good outlandish theory on DU

[beachbumbob]

16. we will be seeing plenty

[soothsayer]

11. So I was looking at this earlier

Is it accurate?

https://people.howstuffworks.com/postpone-presidential-election.htm

Can the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Be Postponed?

Snip but I kind of mean the whole thing

Another wrinkle: If a national election is postponed beyond a certain point, there won't be a House, either. (All Representatives, remember, have to be elected every two years. No election, no House.) In that case, it falls to the Senate to pick the president because the Senate is a "continuing body;" two-thirds of its members are always sitting, with staggered elections only every six years. If none of that works, the selection of the president reverts to the rules of succession: the Speaker of the House (if there is one) will act as president and, if not him (or her), the Senate's President pro tempore assumes the acting gig. This has never happened.

[brush]

15. Let trump keep thinking that he'll remain president if there is no clear winner after Nov. 3.

The Speaker will quickly set him straight of that notion on Jan. 20.

[ashling]

19. Exactly!

[Blecht]

18. I've had enough of this dolt to last ten lifetimes (nt)

[safeinOhio]

22. If he is carried out of the White

House on Election Day. It’ll become a National Holiday. That day will become a National Holiday from then on. Election Day would be great on that day. Everyone would get that day off to vote.

[ashling]

23. Will they throw his stuff out on the curb?

It would be fun to see Ivanka and Kush in trash cans being hauled off.

[JDC]

25. Already planning his legal suit. Typical