WAPO OP ED: No, the 'Hail Mary' plan for Trump isn't going to work [View all]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/11/no-hail-mary-plan-trump-isnt-going-work/

Opinion by Greg Sargent Columnist November 11, 2020 at 4:50 p.m. EST

By now, it has become overwhelmingly obvious that President Trump will lose most or all his court battles over the phantom voter fraud he’s alleging. But there’s still a scenario for Trump that is rattling around the Internet, one that’s widely called a “Hail Mary."

(Skipping lots of good, detailed explanations: Read it all yourself)

For Trump to win in this scenario, numerous states with GOP legislatures would all have to do this extraordinarily rogue act, enough of them to pull Biden down below 270 electoral college votes (this would kick the election in a different sense over to the House, where the relative number of state delegations would decide it).

But for this utterly crazy scenario to work, on top of all that the House would have to relent to that second interpretation in all these cases. Needless to say, that won’t happen. (For the detailed look at this scenario, see this Foley piece.)

Everyone absolutely should remain on alert, to be clear. But all this is absurdly, monumentally implausible.