Trump asked aides if he could pursue a wild plan to replace the Electoral College with loyalists ...

[ItsjustMe]

Trump asked aides if he could pursue a wild plan to replace the Electoral College with loyalists who would ignore the vote, report says

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-asked-aides-if-he-could-pursue-a-wild-plan-to-replace-the-electoral-college-with-loyalists-who-would-ignore-the-vote-report-says/ar-BB1aZ6Qw

President Donald Trump has asked top aides about a wild plan that involves replacing electors in swing states with loyalists to secure himself a second term, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

The Times report came hours after Business Insider reported that the plan was gaining currency among Trump allies.

The plan hinges on Republican state legislatures deciding to ignore the states' results and instead send a new group of electors to the Electoral College who would cast their votes for Trump.

Such a plan, while technically possible, has been widely dismissed by experts as unworkable in practice and an affront to US democracy. Business Insider's report noted some of the problems with making it work.

Citing sources familiar with Trump's activities, The Times reported that the president pressed his advisors about the plan at a meeting on Wednesday.

"It was not a detailed conversation, or really a serious one," and did not reflect any "obsessive desire" of Trump to remain in office, the report described the sources as saying.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. yeah, if you are talking about scamming, bribing, or turning electors, you being obsessive.

[Mike 03]

2. However absurd and unlikely this plan is, it should be deeply troubling to Americans

that this conversation even took place.

[Ninga]

3. This and this alone crystallizes the criminal nature and criminal thought process of this man.

I do not feel bad nor guilty about trying to “understand” his voters. I have no interest.

[Iliyah]

4. In other words ....

I want to be a "dictator" dammit!

[C_U_L8R]

5. Sounds like conspiracy

No wonder the law firms are running away

[CatMor]

6. That alone is the reason we should eliminate the electoral college ..

and have the popular vote. The reasoning for the electoral college ended in 1865. The founding fathers messed up with that concept.

[marble falls]

7. Lets just have the three most populous states elect a President ...

In some ways I see your argument. Like Joe Biden has been saying: there's no blue or red states anymore, only blue and red counties.

[yellowcanine]

8. It is not "technically possible."

Every state has laws specifying that the electors go to the popular vote winner. They could change the law but it would not apply to elections already held. In any case in Pennsylvania the Democratic governors would certainly veto it and Republicans do not have enough of a majority to override.