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Since this is all nonsense, I think it's important to make something clear.

The State Legislatures elect the President and Vice President, indirectly, through the appointment of Electors. This is an absolutely necessary function, without which we could not have a new President, or keep the old one, since the end of his term is fixed by the Constitution.

People voting, constitutionally speaking, are not part of this system. All 50 of the State Legislatures have chosen, for whatever reason, to adopt the "idiots voting" method of appointing their Electors, but this is not a requirement, can be dispensed with at any gtime, and almost had to happen in Florida in the year 2000 (and would have but for the foolish decision by the USSC to hear the non-justiceable Bush v. Gore case).

So, whatever happens with the "Presidential election" in November, a President will be elected on December 15 by the Electoral College and will be sworn in at Noon on January 20,2021.

Yes, and the irony is that if the Democrats plan to create electoral chaos with their mail-in ballot scheme to overwhelm the post office and election vote counters, it will only harm the House and not the President or the Senate.

Since the entire House is up for reelection, there will be no House on January 3 to select a Speaker. More likely, the Republican states that do not use mail-in ballots will have ordinary elections and send their Representative to the House. It will be the Democrat states that can't count and certify their elections that will have vacancies in the House. The Republican majority of those present will choose their Speaker.

In the Senate, only one-third of the seats are up for election. If those same blue states can't certify a Senator, the governor MUST appoint a replacement to fill the vacancy because Article V requires "equal suffrage in the Senate."

As for the President, the 12th amendment says "The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed" shall become President. Blue states that cannot certify their Electors will not count towards the 270 to win. If 20 EV Illinois cannot count their votes, then the threshold drops to 260 to win, and so on with the other blue states. This will motivate blue state legislatures to hold special sessions to appoint their Electors directly, so that the President will be selected without issue.

So the Democrats will be giving up the House, but nothing else, if they follow this tactic.

-PJ