Pursuant to the 12th Amendment, the House of Representatives is required to go into session immediately after the counting of the electoral votes to vote for president if no candidate for the office receives a majority of the electoral votes. Each state delegation votes en bloc, with each state having a single vote.
State majorities:
Democrat 23
Republican 26
The ONLY way we get to an election without a winner is if the democrats openly and forcibly stop the election, and that needs to result in war against them.
This is the 12th Amendment and it says no such thing.
Amendment XXII (1951)
Section 1.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
How QUAINT!
Fair enough. Here’s a question: When it says that the HOR has to go into session immediately if no Electoral College majority happens, do they do so BEFORE or AFTER the new Representatives are sworn in?
Do you get my drift?
The state make-up, will only be known for the new session, after the election.
I would tend to agree...it’ll be 26-plus states for Trump...maybe as high as 30.
But there’s this odd feature...with the mail-in business so screwed up...you might have eight to ten states refusing to sign the election results complete (even by early January), and trying to stall the House vote (state by state) for weeks (if not months).