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To: Safrguns
Trump would lose in the house

The Constitution says:

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; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice.
Right now by my count Republicans have a majority of the House seats in 27 States; the Democrats in 22; and one State is tied. It will be the next Congress that would do the voting, but right now if the voting were thrown to the House, I think it would favor Trump.

ML/NJ

102 posted on 08/04/2020 1:16:11 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj
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.

161 posted on 08/09/2020 10:55:18 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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