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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Sat May 23, 2020, 08:27 PM May 2020

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 Court’s 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.

It’s 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

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It's now become clear exactly how Republicans might try to overturn a Biden victory in November (Original Post) Eugene May 2020 OP
nooooooooooooo n/t Lulu KC May 2020 #1
Wisconsin won't matter. Laelth May 2020 #2
None of this smatters if we take the senate. Zoonart May 2020 #3
I agree. Laelth May 2020 #4
66 Dem Senators + Romney? Unlikely Lord Ludd May 2020 #5
Impossible. Patterson May 2020 #6
We would need a two-thirds majority to convict. Aristus May 2020 #8
Just give up, and go to jail, already. Cracklin Charlie May 2020 #7

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
2. Wisconsin won't matter.
Sat May 23, 2020, 08:35 PM
May 2020

Biden will win with a sufficient margin of victory in the electoral college such that Wisconsin’s electoral votes won’t 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)
3. None of this smatters if we take the senate.
Sat May 23, 2020, 08:39 PM
May 2020

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.

Lord Ludd

(585 posts)
5. 66 Dem Senators + Romney? Unlikely
Sat May 23, 2020, 09:07 PM
May 2020

Unless you think there are a dozen or more Rethugs willing to chance destroying their careers.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
8. We would need a two-thirds majority to convict.
Sun May 24, 2020, 02:29 AM
May 2020

I doubt seriously that that is going to happen...

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