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My (other, besides DJ) Jedi Master Auh2o will correct me if I make any mistakes here.

I think it’s 26-22, with PA tied and MI 8 rats, 7 Rs and Amash (who will come in third if he runs for reelection and probably wouldn’t vote for Biden anyway).

Some rats think they can gain House seats but I think that’s psychotic and it would certainly mean Biden has won easily, 100%. We’re gaining seats in a close election.

I don’t see a delegation that rats could gain as opposed to lose. MI if they win Amash’s seat in a three-way race is most likely.

But what it would mean (and it would be because of 269-269 tie which is very possible, rather than Jo getting any electoral votes) if there were not 26 delegations controlled by one party is that there would be no President elected until after the 2022 midterms (or a special election or 2) changed the composition of the House.

VP would be Acting President, if the Senate was tied also (no Pence tie-breaker for the vote to elect a new VP) then the Supreme Court would decide whether Pelosi (unconstitutional) or Pompeo would be Acting President.

Pelosi or Grassley can’t be Acting President because the constitution prohibits, other than the quasi-exception of the role of the VP in the Senate, serving in more than one branch of government at once. The succession act gets around that by requiring the Speaker to resign from Congress and as Speaker before taking office. This creates a legal absurdity of the highest order. Even if a sitting Speaker is an “officer” who can be Acting President, a FORMER Speaker is most certainly not. Blame early Federalists who wanted their Congressional leaders at the top of the line rather than Jefferson, short-sighted. And Harry Truman for putting the Congressional Leaders (order reversed) back in the line after they had been out for decades because he was a pee-brained failed clothing salesman who had no business being anywhere near the Chief Magistracy of this land.

I warned that we should have altered the succession act in 2018 in case the rats took the House.

If the election (ie all 51 separate elections) is (are) cancelled (LOL) there will be no House either so the Court will choose between Pompeo (who would surely seek the office even over Grassley IMO) and whoever either Grassley or Leahy is President Pro Tem after the Governors fill the vacant third of the Senate.