Shocker: Most Republicans oppose plan to avert a 2024 Trump coup [View all]

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Don't sugarcoat this: House GOP excuses for opposing ECA reform are bad-faith nonsense. If reform fails, it will be easier for House Republicans to conspire with a corrupt GOP governor to steal a future presidential election for Trump or an imitator.

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Opinion | Shocker: Most Republicans oppose plan to avert a 2024 Trump coup
Why it's ominous that House Republicans oppose reform of the Electoral Count Act.
9:18 AM · Sep 21, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/21/trump-2024-coup-house-gop-electoral-count-act-reform/

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As early as Wednesday, the House will vote on a new bill that would plug holes in the arcane law that Donald Trump exploited in his failed effort to overturn his 2020 loss. GOP leaders are whipping against the bill, meaning Republicans will widely oppose it.

Let’s not allow the meaning of this to get lost in a fog of euphemisms. If House Republicans get their way, it will make it easier for them to conspire with one or more corrupt GOP governors and other state actors to overturn a 2024 presidential election loss.

House Republicans, of course, offer different reasons for opposing the new bill, which would reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887. But they don’t withstand scrutiny. And House GOP opposition to this reform matters. It’s another marker of how radicalized and tightly aligned with Trump a GOP-controlled House would be.

Beyond the House, GOP opposition matters for another critical reason: It could end up rendering reform weaker, even if it does pass into law.

The House bill would clarify that the vice president’s role in counting presidential electors is purely ceremonial. It would make it harder for Congress to throw out legitimate electors and protect against corruption of certification of electors at the state level. All those would address ECA flaws that Trump attempted to seize on to invalidate President Biden’s electors.

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