It's now become clear exactly how Republicans might try to overturn a Biden victory in November
Source: The Independent
It's now become clear exactly how Republicans might try to overturn a Biden victory in November
'It's party over country, and they will do whatever they can to hold on to power'
Andrew Feinberg
Washington DC
@AndrewFeinberg
1 day ago
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While McDonald noted that Trump and Republicans in Congress have little power to push back on election results once they have been certified and the electoral college has met, he suggested that the greater risk to a legitimate election comes not from Republicans in Washington making baseless claims about fraud in Michigan, but from those in a neighboring state with a notoriously gerrymandered legislature: Wisconsin.
The larger threat
is a scenario where a state like Wisconsin is pivotal in the election results and the electoral college, and Biden has won Wisconsin, but the Republican legislature decides to override the results from the election and award the electors to Donald Trump, he said adding that the Supreme Courts majority opinion in Bush v. Gore noted that state legislatures have plenary power to decide how electors are appointed.
If you're looking for a scenario where the results are somehow reversed from a Biden victory by allegations of irregularities in the election, that's probably the scenario you're looking at, he added.
While McDonald posited that Michigan could also play host to such a scenario because of its heavily gerrymandered legislature, he stressed Wisconsin is the most likely candidate for such a power grab because of the lengths Republicans there have gone to stymie Democrats in the past, most recently by forcing voters to cast their ballots in person during the April primary election.
Its also a state where Republicans have made no secret of their belief that voters in cities are illegitimate.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-biden-victory-wisconsin-michigan-gerrymandering-voter-fraud-electoral-college-a9528561.html
Lulu KC
(2,547 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)Biden will win with a sufficient margin of victory in the electoral college such that Wisconsins electoral votes wont matter one way or the other.
While this OP is correct in terms of what could happen in a close election, I am fairly convinced that the November 2020 election is going to be a Democratic landslide, so, to me, the OP feels like useless and unwarranted pearl-clutching.
-Laelth
Zoonart
(11,750 posts)If Trump steals the election, we will impeach him and vote to remove. The down ballot is more important than the top of the ticket. The GOP knows this and it is why they are freaking out.
And they should be freaking out. Theyre gonna get hammered.
-Laelth
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)Unless you think there are a dozen or more Rethugs willing to chance destroying their careers.
Patterson
(1,525 posts)Aristus
(66,096 posts)I doubt seriously that that is going to happen...
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I am so sick of these thieves.