1. Donald Trump wins the 2024 election by 304-227 electoral votes over Joe Biden (the same margin as his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton).
2. He wins Texas (36 electoral votes) and Florida (29 electoral votes) by 60%-40% margins in both states.
3. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi drum up a scheme to overturn the election results and keep Biden in the White House. They get the Senate and House to challenge these 65 electoral votes under the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
4. The plot is successful. The House and Senate both recognize the challenge to these electoral votes under the terms of the 1887 law, and in separate votes they give Joe Biden 65 of Trump's 304 electoral votes.
There's absolutely nothing in the U.S. Constitution that permits anything of this sort. In fact, the only role the Constitution gives to Congress is under the 12th Amendment -- when Congress selects the President and Vice President in cases where no candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes.
I'm going to gently suggest that you turn off your TV and educate yourself a bit.
Take your scenarios to your deluded utopia and play with yourself.
Prog.
I have a book on the 1876 election in my TBR pile, but I am wondering if I remember the situation correctly.
Wasn’t there a few different elector slates sent in from the same states?
I stumbled across a mention of the contested election being worse than the allegations of 2020, and I bought the book but never got around to starting it yet.
You bring up a good point, but what happens if say, Texas ends up with TWO sets of electors presented via a split state government? Wasn’t that the reason they made the law?
I am going to go home and dig the book out the pile tonight, but trying to remember the set up of it.
This the book I was talking about
By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D9WKLSG/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title