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Let's Assume Trump Loses. Election Tied Up In Courts. Does Pelosi Take Over Until Resolved?

Posted on 11/04/2020 8:54:42 AM PST by devane617

It appears to me that Trump is on the way to a crooked loss. Of course it becomes a huge matter for many courts that could take months to resolve. On Jan 20th, 2021 who is the POTUS? It looks to me like in a crisis Pelosi may take over the Executive branch until a clear winner is named.


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What happens on Jan 20th, 2021?
1 posted on 11/04/2020 8:54:42 AM PST by devane617
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To: devane617

Ugh. Let’s not.


2 posted on 11/04/2020 8:55:54 AM PST by stanne
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To: devane617

At some point it becomes necessary to cleanse the country or it will not long endure


3 posted on 11/04/2020 8:56:00 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: devane617

Let’s not....


4 posted on 11/04/2020 8:56:00 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: devane617

No, let’s not assume.


5 posted on 11/04/2020 8:56:07 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (2020: Broken glass election : Republic or no Republic.)
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To: devane617

If it keeps on raining, the levee’s going to break.


6 posted on 11/04/2020 8:56:07 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: devane617

There is no Constitutional basis for that.................


7 posted on 11/04/2020 8:56:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: devane617

Not going to happen. Trump will win out right.


8 posted on 11/04/2020 8:57:13 AM PST by Tamatoa (Fight for our America, MAGA)
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To: devane617
What happens on Jan 20th, 2021?

By that point a President will have already been elected one way or the other. If neither candidate has a majority of the Electors on the day the Congress meets to tabulate the Electoral College's votes, the House will elect the President and the Senate will elect the Vice President.

9 posted on 11/04/2020 8:57:51 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Tamatoa

I like your enthusiasm but I am worried


10 posted on 11/04/2020 8:58:23 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: devane617

Someone gets inaugurated as President.


11 posted on 11/04/2020 8:58:24 AM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: devane617

Let’s assume the sun super nova’s and then nothing matters...


12 posted on 11/04/2020 8:59:52 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: devane617

I was thinking about this.

Prefer Pelosi to Harris.

Flame away!

Who is next after Nancy?


13 posted on 11/04/2020 9:00:34 AM PST by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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“...What happens on Jan 20th, 2021?..”
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That depends on what happens on December 14, 2020.


14 posted on 11/04/2020 9:00:38 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Civil war happens. What do you think? Do you think one half of the country is going to let Crazy Nan take over the Whitehouse? At that point I’ll be out in the street. This election is going to be decided long before Jan 20th.


15 posted on 11/04/2020 9:00:40 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: devane617

December 14 is the Election Certification. Won’t somebody have to be decided by then?


16 posted on 11/04/2020 9:00:56 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Liberty over lock-downs. Freedom over face masks.)
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To: devane617
The courts should not take months to resolve this. The Electoral College vote is already established for a date in December under Federal law (the Monday after the second Wednesday in December), and the court challenges will almost certainly have to be resolved before that.

In a surreal scenario where bedlam and uncertainty still exists by that EC date, it would not be out of line for the legislatures of the contested states to vote on their own slate of electors to send to the Electoral College vote.

All of the contested states except Nevada have REPUBLICAN legislatures.

As I said last night as this drama began to unfold ... the U.S. is going to get an awesome lesson in civics and constitutional law over the next few weeks.

17 posted on 11/04/2020 9:01:49 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: Red Badger

> Constitutional basis

The ultimate answer is the SC.

They will have two choices: trigger limited war with good guys controlling govt hardware, or trigger a much worse war with bad guys controlling it.


18 posted on 11/04/2020 9:02:43 AM PST by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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To: devane617

Possibly. It’s been wargamed, and there are plenty of other possibilities, though.

Last time (only time) this happened, 1876, the R’s and D’s got together and compromised. Before they did, though, there were some troop movements.


19 posted on 11/04/2020 9:03:12 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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The standing army is not a factor, it is too little to matter.


20 posted on 11/04/2020 9:05:13 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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