Bernstein: White House Talking About Throwing The Election To The House To Hold On To Power

RCP video ^ | 8/4/2020 | Ian Schwartz

[Sir Napsalot]

Carl Bernstein warned President Trump may throw the election to the House of Representatives to decide in an attempt to hold onto office on CNN Monday night.

"We need a political and cultural protector in this country between now and Election Day from the president of the United States and his recklessness," Bernstein demanded.

"Everything is about the base, as he calls it, and getting the base to somehow re-elect him or get him close enough to reelection that he can then put into authoritarian practice, some kind of mechanism that will allow him to hold on to power, perhaps throw the election into the House of Representatives, which indeed is being talked about in the White House," Bernstein said.

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CARL BERNSTEIN: I think we have to recognize that we have a national emergency unlike anything in our history. That national emergency is that we have a president of the United States who is demonstrably unfit, incompetent, not honest, and not capable of dealing with this horrible situation.

We need a political and cultural protector in this country between now and Election Day from the president of the United States and his recklessness. People are dead because of his recklessness.

We need the political system to respond, which means Republicans particularly, because the Republicans on Capitol Hill as well as those who left the White House, they know he is not a stable individual. They have told dozens of people, they believe the president of the United States is out of control, that he is not fit to be the president of the United States.

We need to be protected from this president so that we can be protected from COVID. ...

[EasySt]

Wow! A former EneMedia troop decides Hell is not for him!
Good on ‘im!

[FLT-bird]

I smell great desperation.

That's it exactly. Trump is going to roll and he knows it.

[Bommer]

How does any of this make sense? Throw the to the democrap controlled house in case the guy with Alzheimers wins? Deep throat meet Dumbass!

[ez]

Vote in the house is by state delegations as I recall. Iow all the reps from one state vote and the winner is given their “electoral votes.”

[Safrguns]

I dont see how this is possible when democrats hold the majority.

Also, would only take one Rhino to throw the numbers.

There’s at least 13 of those if not more.

[rfp1234]

Holy torpedo, that’s a gallery of rogues.

[Agamemnon]

Bernstein is just trying to get ahead of Trump's announcement of a National Emergency.

THIS JUST IN: Trump is taking NV to court for Governor's EO making Mail-in ballots the norm, side-stepping Secy of State and Dept. of Elections -- process reports to the Governor directly. Governor declared a state of emergency to do this.

Well lookee that: State of Emergency declared, Executive order over-rides traditional "administrative" aspect of election, Voting practice policy changed with the scribble of a pen. Hmmmm.

Trump "trumps" this action using Supremacy clause with a Federal EO that not only requires Voter ID, but invalidates Mail-in voting everywhere across the board, as an electoral Civil Rights enforcement issue -- one has no provenance for Mail-in votes. The civil rights of those casting legitimate ballots is offended with Mail-in ballots which have no provenance.

It’s about time the GOP thought outside the box. We will never win again if we don’t.

FReegards!

[BiteYourSelf]

The demonrats control the house.

[willyd]

He is trying to throw shade because Nancy Pelosi got on televsion and basically telegraphed the Dem’s strategy of delaying the election with mail in ballots and then attempting an interim President with her as Speaker of the House acting as the temporary President.

Someone picked up on it and now they are trying to confuse the issue.

[jjotto]

Each state delegation gets only one vote.

[Dawgreg]

Will that scarface POS ever shut up????? I guess not as long as 4 or 5 people are watching him......

[Mariner]

What he said doesn’t even make sense.

The House is Democrat controlled and likely to remain so. To boot, POTUS does not have the authority or power to “throw it to the House”.

[BiteYourSelf]

I see that now but I suspect that the demonrats will try some hanky panky none the less.

[Mariner]

“Funny, I read today that Laurence Tribe is saying that if we keep counting votes well into January the House can coronate Queen Nancy.”

If the electoral college has not voted by Jan 3rd (last day of current congress), it’s possible.

But the count would continue, and eventually the electoral college will vote.

[jjotto]

EVs are counted by the incoming Congress, not the old one.

[Wiser now]

The House would elect Pelosi. That scenario is already being floated as the Democrat’s real plan by a number of people.
Bernstein and Woodward are both jokes. Had they been doing their job there never would have been a Clinton or Obama presidency.

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

These people are dangerously trying to foment unrest.

[rarestia]

There is entirely too much water in that pipe. Not gonna say how I know. Just trust me.

[MarDav]

I’m seriously surprised that we haven’t heard that one of these on the air fools has met with a fatal accident, or maybe even a fatal encounter with a slug from an unknown assailant. These folks hate, Hate, HATE America, have shown this to be true night after night and I’m sure there is some Travis Bickel-type practicing in front of a mirror right about now.

[EEGator]

It should be lower than where you pull the bowl out.