Biden Campaign: VP May Have Had ‘Informal’ Meeting With Burisma Exec At Center Of Bombshell NY Post Report

Daily Wire ^ | Oct 14, 2020 | By Tim Pearce

[TigerClaws]

The campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden admitted that it’s possible that Biden may have met with an executive for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, during his time as vice president when his son was a board member of the company.

The Biden campaign released a statement condemning reporting from the New York Post that revealed an email alleging that Biden’s son Hunter brokered a meeting between his father and Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to Burisma’s board. The campaign ruled out any official meetings between Pozharskyi and the former vice president, but could not say that the two never met.

[politicket]

This means that Biden can drop out and be replaced by someone else

Many states tie the electors to the actual names on the ballot. To vote for somebody else (even in the same party) would be a faithless elector.

[Political Junkie Too]

We're not discussing the votes that the Electors cast, we're discussing the vote FOR the Electors in the first place.

There is relevant election law (per state) that says that a deceased or withdrawn candidate on the ballot shall still count for the corresponding party's Electors.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

There is relevant election law (per state) that says that a deceased or withdrawn candidate on the ballot shall still count for the corresponding party's Electors.

See this post in a different thread.

-PJ

[BeauBo]

The last debate will be must watch TV, with President Trump hammering this.

I don’t see how old Joe can show up for the debate - even if their moderator has a kill switch for the President’s mike.

Good times.

[alexander_busek]

Article II and Amendment XII both say:”The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves”.

That's confusing!

"...one of whom..." Does that mean "exactly (or "at least?") one member of the set consisting solely of the P. and V.P. not being an inhabitant of the same state as the other member of that set?"

That could have been expressed much more elegantly: "...and vote by ballot for P. and V.P.; the P. shall not be an inhabitant of the same state as the V.P."

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

They can be from the same state, but only one of them can win the electoral votes from that state, so in practice it never happens that two people from the same state are nominated.

What would then look like, if the P. and V.P. both came from the same state? How would, e.g., the SINGLE Electoral vote of Wyoming be "split?" How would that then affect the final total?

538 Electoral votes - 270 to win. WY gives it single vote to Trump (assuming he was an inhabitant of WY) - but not to Pence. How would that then tally?

Thanks and regards,

[pollywog]

The knowledge of ALL of this chicanery may very well explain the odd “flipped” behaviour of Wolf Blitzer against Pelosi, Jake Tapper against Biden vice-campaign chair.... etc.

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Great observation! I bet you are right!!

[Jim Noble]

Well, in 2000, when GW Bush and Cheney were both residents of Texas, the Texas electors should not have been able to vote for both men.

As it happened, Cheney claimed to be a resident of Wyoming and it was not seriously challenged.

[central_va]

Gaslighting only works when there is total denial.

The MSM is going to have to spin a little harder then.

[pollywog]

BTW, I fully believe President Trump will have the most legitimate votes....by a landslide.

And my constant prayer is for God to confuse and confound their cheating plans. He is greater than their puny selves.

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That is my prayer also... that God will bring to light the evil that is being done and confuse the cheating plans!! May it be so........

[central_va]

This is going to destroy the Biden campaign? It should but I am not feeling it. At all.

[central_va]

This will only help the Biden campaign and clearly Joe, America’s Grandpa, is a victim here. He is a victim of a conspiracy get him and his poor son. Most likely this is a conspiracy engineered by the Russians and Trump surrogates. Poor Joe. < /propaganda >

[4Liberty]

The "billion" Biden threatened to withhold from Ukraine is our tax money. That is why Americans should be outraged. Biden stole funds to enrich his family by laundering it as "foreign aid."

[Political Junkie Too]

Your rewrite is fundamentally different from the original.

Your rewrite prohibits the President and Vice-President from being from the same state.

The Constitution does not prohibit this, but if they are from the same state, that state's electors must choose between them and likely cast their VP vote for someone else.

This almost became an issue with Dick Cheney, who was residing in Texas in 1999 as CEO of Halliburton. Cheney had to change his residency to Wyoming (the state he represented as a Congressman) in order to qualify for 12th amendment Electoral votes. As we now know, those votes mattered, since President Bush won with 271 Electoral Votes.

If Bush/Cheney had decided to take a chance and have Cheney remain a Texas resident, Cheney would not have received a majority of appointed Electors and the Senate would have chosen between him and Joe Lieberman in the first week of January 2001. The 2000 Senate election resulted in a tie 50-50, so Al Gore as Vice-President would have broken the tie with a vote for Lieberman.

-PJ

[alexander_busek]

Thanks, PJ! In your case, truly, nomen est omen.

On the ballot I filled out and mailed in yesterday, there was only a single "bubble" next to the names of Trump and Pence. I was thus completely overlooking the fact that these provisions of the Constitution pertained to the Electoral College!

Thanks and regards,

P.S. Any idea why the Constitution requires this?

[mellow velo]

Nah. A Seth Rich situation would be too messy. And suspicious, too (even for today's MSM to ignore).

With a coke-head like Hunter, an "overdose" would lend plausible deniability.

[SaveFerris]

WOW Joe. Just WOW.

[carcraft]

This is going to continue. As I understand it there are thousands of Hunter Biden e-mails. Every few day there are going to be more revelations. Biden campaign probably knows there are confirming documents so they are trying to get in front of the story. and minimize it!

[Political Junkie Too]

P.S. Any idea why the Constitution requires this?

It's a holdover from the original text in Article II. Before the 12th amendment, the Electors voted for two people; the top vote-getter became President and the runner-up became Vice President. It was because of this that the Framers said the Electors couldn't vote for TWO people from their own state, essentially "packing" the ticket -- only one was allowed.

Since the 12th amendment split the vote for President and Vice-President, the "packing" of the ticket from large states is effectively eliminated. By keeping the Elector requirement of voting for at least one candidate from another state, it encouraged building an administration that wouldn't be dominated by any one state.

-PJ

[carcraft]

Much easier to soak in a cosmic solution then smash computers with a hammer and drop them off at a land fill