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Sen. Barrasso on Fox: It's not the Congress that elects the President, it is the American people
twitter ^ | Feb 6 | Chad Pergram

Posted on 02/06/2022 7:25:50 AM PST by RandFan

@ChadPergram

Barrasso on Fox: I voted to certify the election and I think Mike Pence did his constitutional duty that day. It's not the Congress that elects the President, it is the American people.

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To: RandFan

Only if the election is not fraudulent Barassho. Otherwise unknown entities are installing a fraud as president.


21 posted on 02/06/2022 7:48:25 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: RandFan

If the Electoral College ‘fails’ (no 270 vote winner), then this goes in the new year to the House, where the top three vote-getters are given a review....state by state (House members) and the first person to get 26 state votes...is then President.

The only scenario that would be worth entertaining....if the voting system is truly screwed up...then having three people divide up the Electoral Vote (say one wins ten states, one wins 20 states, and an another one wins 20), would make an entertaining situation. No 270 winner.

This would tear the guts out of the corrupted vote system, and leave it for House members to correct. In this case, it might take six weeks to get people lined up to vote along the lines of 26 states for one candidate.


22 posted on 02/06/2022 7:48:39 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: RandFan
It's not the Congress that elects the President, it is the American people
In 2020 it was not "the American People", it was a concerted effort of Fox News among other low-life Trump haters.
23 posted on 02/06/2022 7:50:55 AM PST by lewislynn (Fox news: the most irrelevant after the fact useless news source...Fake news? try NO news)
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To: Renfrew
How dare you inject logic into our current political system.

You must be a running dog of capitalism.

24 posted on 02/06/2022 7:52:21 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Who is Ray Epps?)
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To: joshua c

“the states actually”

Ding ding ding....we have a winner.


25 posted on 02/06/2022 7:52:51 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: qaz123

Many states continue to elect and re-elect Bush League Republicans who continue to assist the Democrats in the destruction of the country.

In 2022 FL and ND have Amnesty Senators up for re-election.


26 posted on 02/06/2022 7:59:00 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And they’ll be sent back no matter how many times they’ve screwed the people.

It’s almost like a game with them.


27 posted on 02/06/2022 8:03:10 AM PST by qaz123
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To: LS

What do the Federalist Papers say about it?


28 posted on 02/06/2022 8:04:15 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: Renfrew

You write: “The question is why did the Founders insist that Congress and the VP certify the election results?
If not to reject fraudulent elections than why do those powers exist?”

Precisely! However, the founding fathers could in no way imagine the cowardice of a Congress or Vice President unable to respond to an obviously fraudulent election.


29 posted on 02/06/2022 8:05:49 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: RandFan

Why is The Turtle continuing to push his Turtlelets out on the stage to continue to bash Trump?

Why do they enthusiastically do so?


30 posted on 02/06/2022 8:06:04 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Renfrew

You write: “The question is why did the Founders insist that Congress and the VP certify the election results?
If not to reject fraudulent elections than why do those powers exist?”

Precisely! However, the founding fathers could in no way imagine the cowardice of a Congress or Vice President unable to respond to an obviously fraudulent election.


31 posted on 02/06/2022 8:06:22 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: RandFan

Whoever counts the votes elects a president.....


32 posted on 02/06/2022 8:06:41 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: RandFan

“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Biden said in the video.


33 posted on 02/06/2022 8:10:13 AM PST by algore
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To: mac_truck

Federalist papers are not policy, nor are they law.

It’s better to stick with the law. For the record, though, Jefferson in the Declaration said that it was the “PEOPLE” of the united colonies, not the “colonies” that declared their independence. So there’s that.

All in all, the elector system was pretty brilliant, and interesting that the Founders did not put in a “faithless elector” clause themselves.


34 posted on 02/06/2022 8:11:49 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: Paladin2

They are all fully committed to the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) and Trump is a threat to that plan.


35 posted on 02/06/2022 8:11:54 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rdcbn1
...the founding fathers were highly skeptical of governmental power and it’s potential corruption and were obsessed with checks and balances....

...they wanted the certification of the election by the outgoing VP as a final check and balance...

If they were worried about the central government's power why would the want an agent of that government, the VP, to be able to override the states' certified selection of electors?

36 posted on 02/06/2022 8:12:01 AM PST by semimojo
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To: RandFan

Sen. Barr-is-asshoe. Another worthless Republican.


37 posted on 02/06/2022 8:12:36 AM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: RandFan

Suppose to be but doesn’t appear so in the last election one of the shadiest elections I ever seen.

JFK kick box


38 posted on 02/06/2022 8:17:44 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: LS
ELECTORS chosen by the vote of the people in each state.

Sort of a yes and no. The state legislatures choose how their Electors are selected. Currently, all state legislatures have chosen to hold an election by the people in their state and let the outcome of that election decide who their Electors will be. Most of the states have a winner-take-all system but a few can split their Electors.

IMHO, the state legislatures should have realized that the 2020 election had many, many problems and should've taken direct control and chosen the Electors they believe their constituents wanted. They had that power but chose not to do so.

39 posted on 02/06/2022 8:25:11 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: RandFan

What brassomis tryingmto,cover up is the fsct that Trump wasn’t asking,pence to elect anyone, nor congress. All he was doing was saying that there are serious problems with the election, and that an independent I vestigstion needed to take place to see if the election was legally done, and if not, then to not certify the results so that the problem could be addressed properly

Pence had the right to say that something didn’t loo, right, and without cittificztion until a review coild be made. The people’s votes were still the thing that would get someone elected, not congress or pence.


40 posted on 02/06/2022 8:32:53 AM PST by Bob434
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