“If it goes to the legislature half the country would not accept the result.”
It’s constitutional. That’s all that matters. The supreme court will uphold it.
If Trump needs to declare martial law to bring rioters to heel I call it a bonus.
The Legislatures could make assigning the electors more palatable by divvying up the electors by a ratio that includes the minority party representatives and by giving the senate of that state half the electors(who would also assign the electors by party ratios) and by giving the Governor one elector choice. It would be interesting to see the weird elector numbers from such actions but it might be the best compromise from otherwise tainted races. Trump would come out ahead in those states but he wouldn’t get everything.