Election kicked to congress to decide;
Senate chooses Pence to be VP, House chooses “Pattyfingers” Biden as President. When “Bigeye” Biden has to step down due to medical issues and dementia, Pence moves up.
A field goal or safety instead a touchdown. A score but not a satisfying score.
Amending what I said. Trump could prevail and be elected.
https://theconversation.com/how-congress-could-decide-the-2020-election-146054
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The founders proved prescient: The elections of 1800 and 1824 did not produce winners in the Electoral College and were decided by the House. Thomas Jefferson was chosen in 1800 and John Quincy Adams in 1824.
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A tie in the Electoral College remains a possibility, however remote. There are 538 electors, so a minimum majority to win is 270. The website 270toWin lists 64 hypothetical scenarios in which both Joe Biden and Donald Trump could get 269 electors. That would throw the election to the House.
Though the House has a Democratic majority, such an outcome would almost certainly benefit Trump.
Here’s why: In a concession to small states concerned their voices would be marginalized if the House was called upon to choose the president, the founders gave only one vote to each state. House delegations from each state meet to decide how to cast their single vote.
That voting procedure gives equal representation to California – population 40 million – and Wyoming, population 600,000.
Currently, this arrangement favors the Republicans. The GOP dominates the delegations from 26 states – exactly the number required to reach a majority under the rules of House presidential selection. But it’s not the current House that would decide a contested 2020 election. It is the newly elected House that would choose the president. So the outcome depends on congressional races.
One more caveat: Split decisions are considered abstentions, so states that cannot reach an agreement would be counted out.”
I doubt that will happen...the congressional vote goes by state delegations and the Republicans have 27 of them though it might be 30 now. So it is not be congressional majority it is by state house majority.
Why would house vote Biden? The REPs hold 28-22 majority I believe
The house would elect Trump. It’s based on delegations, one vote per state and that’s a lock for us.
“Election kicked to congress to decide;
Senate chooses Pence to be VP, House chooses “Pattyfingers” Biden as President. When “Bigeye” Biden has to step down due to medical issues and dementia, Pence moves up.”
Likely, if it goes to Congress, it will be resolved in Trump’s favor since we have the majority state houses.
However, on the off-chance the House went for Biden, what would stop the Senate from selecting Trump as VP? After all, he got the “2nd” most number of votes. Isn’t that how they used to do it?