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. ...

[grey_whiskers]

The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed;

So this is worse and worse for the Dems.

Let's say, New York and California deliberately screw up, and can't count the votes by the deadline.

Then the number of electors appointed is 535 - 55 (CA) - 29 (NY), which is 451.

That means Trump only has to get 226 to clinch the election, not 270.

Now look at 2016, ok? Trump got (call it) 306, biden 229. So Trump could LOSE 80 electoral votes and still win the election.

These people are STUPID.

[Safrguns]

This is really getting old.

I wish there was a way to delete my post to stop people from knee jerk responding to it without reading the thread.

[yldstrk]

Grandpa you are cracking me up?