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AxionExcel

(755 posts) Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:42 AM Mar 2016

Civics 101 Quiz: What if? [View all]

OK, what if Trump does get tossed under the Republican bus at the convention and runs as an Independent. Could happen. Maybe even, for the sake of argument, Bernie also decides to run as an independent. Whatever.

In any event, if in the general election no candidate (Dem., Repub, or I) gets a sufficient number of electoral college votes, does that mean that the lame duck Republican Congress gets to pick the next President?

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Civics 101 Quiz: What if? [View all] AxionExcel Mar 2016 OP

Sounds like a lot of work hereforthevoting Mar 2016 #1

I don't see Trump doing that Baobab Mar 2016 #2

well, he always brags about going to Wharton B-school, and UPenn is an Ivy League CTyankee Mar 2016 #4

No, the newly-elected House of Representatives would pick the next President in that case. PoliticAverse Mar 2016 #3

Whew - thanks AxionExcel Mar 2016 #6

Congress will choose both. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #5

No - it means the NEW Congress picks the President...with complications brooklynite Mar 2016 #7

In quite a few states, neither could run as an independent Maeve Mar 2016 #8

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