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Will Democrats use the nuclear option to blow up the election?
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/516207-will-democrats-use-the-nuclear-option-to-blow-up-the-election ^

Posted on 09/13/2020 1:02:36 PM PDT by therightliveswithus

Imagine waking up the morning after the election this November with an unclear result. Suppose that Donald Trump fails to capture the popular vote by a wider margin than he did in 2016 and loses several states he carried that year. With a slim majority in states like Florida and Pennsylvania, he could still garner 270 votes from the Electoral College.

But would Democrats accept such an outcome? There is a substantial chance that legislatures in blue states could effectively overturn the results of the election through a means available in the Constitution. This “nuclear option,” as I call it, has never been tried before but could bring the nation to its knees.

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1 posted on 09/13/2020 1:02:36 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
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If that’s their plan, that I would suggest that there wouldn’t be a hole deep enough for them to hide in.


2 posted on 09/13/2020 1:04:59 PM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept)
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To: therightliveswithus

Do bears “s” in the woods?


3 posted on 09/13/2020 1:05:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: therightliveswithus

If the Dems don’t think they can win or steal the election, then one option is to create so much chaos that there is no election.


4 posted on 09/13/2020 1:06:22 PM PDT by Professional
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To: therightliveswithus

Did the author point out that most of the swing states with Democrat governors — like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina — have legislatures controlled by the REPUBLICAN Party?


5 posted on 09/13/2020 1:08:14 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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The mail-in vote is going to be a sham. Democrat foot soldiers will harvest enough ballots cast by dead voters, imaginary voters, and house pets to cost President Trump the (Democrat controlled) swing states he'll need to win.

At the point, what obligation does the country have to accept the results of a fraudulent election?

6 posted on 09/13/2020 1:08:14 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: therightliveswithus

There is no nuclear option. This kvetching is silly.


7 posted on 09/13/2020 1:08:20 PM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: therightliveswithus

If they try it there will be real blood in the streets.


8 posted on 09/13/2020 1:08:20 PM PDT by Bayan
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First, there would be multiple legal challenges, in federal courts and in Congress. Second, any legislator who voted for voiding his State’s popular vote would have to go into hiding with his family.


9 posted on 09/13/2020 1:08:46 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Bears “s” wherever they want


10 posted on 09/13/2020 1:12:35 PM PDT by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: therightliveswithus

“A landmark decision from the Supreme Court has found that states can force their electors to vote in a certain way.”

No, that’s not what the ruling stated.


11 posted on 09/13/2020 1:19:05 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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The author’s premise is based on the idea that state legislatures, not the voters, have the ultimate power of selecting Electors. But I imagine that most states’ laws require the state to give the electoral votes to whoever wins the states. Those laws would have to be repealed before the state legislature could assign electors otherwise. And such a thing would require the assent of both houses of the legislature. The author gives the example of Minnesota trying to direct electoral votes towards the democrat, but the state’s senate is controlled by Republicans.

I have no doubt that states totally under control by dems would be quite willing to try and pull such a stunt, but CA, NY, NJ are not likely to end in Trump’s win column.


12 posted on 09/13/2020 1:23:09 PM PDT by hanamizu
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.”Second, any legislator who voted for voiding his State’s popular vote would have to go into hiding with his family.”

Didn’t work out too well for the Tsar and his family 100 years ago, end that was in a country and era with almost no technology.


13 posted on 09/13/2020 1:27:46 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: therightliveswithus

A mentally challenged Biden and a mentally strong and energetic can do incumbent POTUS and there is a question as to who should run America? Power hungry, greedy Americans who could care less about their families, school, colleges, the economy, foreign affairs, law enforcement, first defenders, anti-Americans and illegals who vote i.e. felons and lawbreakers....putting Joe Biden in the driver’s seat, is putting a gun to the head of all loyal Americans.....


14 posted on 09/13/2020 1:28:57 PM PDT by yoe (Vote for President Trump!..Keep America Great and protected by the US. Constitution.)
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To: therightliveswithus

I do not doubt that something along this line is what the dimoKKKRATs have planned. I would say stock up on food, gas, ammo and other necessary items.


15 posted on 09/13/2020 1:36:22 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: ScottfromNJ

“A landmark decision from the Supreme Court has found that states can force their electors to vote in a certain way.”

No, that’s not what the ruling stated.

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I believe the USSC ruled that a States electors cannot go togue. Since just 30 States have rules governing their electors I am unsure what happens in the 20 which don’t.


16 posted on 09/13/2020 1:42:39 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: therightliveswithus

I sent Colonel Black’s YouTube video yesterday.  Due to the importance of his message and the PROBABILITY that YouTube will delete it, I REPOSTED it to both Brighteon and Bitchute at the links here:

https://www.brighteon.com/8fd1d9be-b229-44bb-86a5-b081255230df
https://www.bitchute.com/video/B4rOtzcctyev/
(DO NOT REPOST THE BRIGHTEON LINK TO FB for the same reason it’s likely to be scrubbed by YouTube as IT IS COUNTER TO THEIR LEFTIST AGENDA!)


17 posted on 09/13/2020 1:43:36 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES YOU!)
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To: therightliveswithus

If they do that, it’s on...


18 posted on 09/13/2020 1:47:02 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: therightliveswithus

Can we cut out the dystopian stuff?

The noise volume around here is already at a “9.” I expect us to hit “11” with whatever October stuff is in the pipelines.

The result will be known within a few days of Election Day. So what? What’s a few days.

If the GOP doesn’t have people in the polling places , and lawyers in the courts...then shame on us.

They key is to vote.

But all of this “what if” junk is not going to happen.


19 posted on 09/13/2020 2:13:16 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Like the blinded and enraged Samson, they will pull the whole Temple of Dagon down upon their own heads, if it should rid the world of that troublesome President and the Philistines.

Nothing new or original ever happens any more. Always trying to re-create some story from the past....


20 posted on 09/13/2020 2:23:01 PM PDT by alloysteel ("The Best Is Yet to Come "- theme of 2020 RNC)
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