‘What’s he confessing to?’ Trump’s Mike Johnson ‘secret’ draws Electoral College concerns
‘What’s he confessing to?’ Trump’s Mike Johnson ‘secret’ draws Electoral College concerns
Donald Trump's six-hour Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night, filled with "anger, vitriol and racist threats," began almost immediately with the "joke heard around the world"—an attack calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean"—and ended with 80 minutes of Dona...
A few things of note here. First, there is no guarantee that Mike Johnson will even be in a position to do anything about it. It's the new Congress that counts these votes, so if Democrats can pick up a few seats then Jeffries will be Speaker.
Second, recall that they made some changes to the EC voting process:
They increased the threshold of members who need to object to 1/5 of each body (so, 87 House members + 20 Senators). Is it possible they already have these people in the bag? Possibly, especially since the yo-yos who objected last time haven't really had any consequences to that.
They also clarified exactly two grounds for challenges:
The electors of a state were not lawfully certified
An elector's vote was not "regularly given"
But I suppose there is nothing to really stop them from claiming the electors were not lawfully certified, even if they were. They are still complaining that Jack Smith wasn't lawfully installed, and even got a judge to buy into it.
They are still complaining that Jack Smith wasn't lawfully installed, and even got a judge to buy into it.
That judge being Aileen Cannon, who Trump nominated, has been obviously slow walking his case, is clearly doing everything she can to protect him, and even she wasn't stupid enough to try this argument until Clarence Thomas dropped a big fat hint in a SCOTUS decision to give her cover.
Cannon is also on the leaked shortlist to be Donald's AG if he disgraces the office again (there are thoughts it might have been an intentional leak to somehow shore up Cannon's 'Special Prosecutors are just a figment of our imagination, we're hallucinating the hundreds of years of precedent' reasoning to Judge Chutkan, like 'See, this potential future AG says it, that's gotta count for something') , "The defendant offered me a very prestigious job" seems like a pretty major conflict of interest that should definitely have her removed from the case.
Maybe not about having congresspeople objecting. They're going to try and engineer an electoral college 269-269 tie.
It's a fucking longshot, and if they still think it's a plan worth putting effort behind, that speaks to what they think their chances of winning above board are.
I mean, they can't really engineer a tie. If the vote ends up that way that's one thing, but if they have found a way to manipulate votes why not go for the win?
They could lean on certain states to change their certification, but that didn't work in 2020, there's no reason to assume it would work now. These battleground states have had a lot of attention put on them, their Governors and Secretaries of State aren't going to roll over like that.
No, I think the game they are playing is to purposefully sabotage the certification process at the local level so key Harris wins can be neutralized. If Harris wins GA or AZ, I am fully expecting the local election boards to do everything they can to stall the certification. They've basically been telegraphing that, so much so that there have been recent court rulings telling those local boards they can't do that.
""A tie in the Electoral College will then require a vote in the House of Representatives, where the GOP, led by Speaker Johnson, has a (thin) majority....""
Except that the new Congress is sworn in on 1/2.
Right now the Republican majority is 220 to 212 with 3 vacancies.
*Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) resigned effective 04/25/2024. b
*Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) died 07/19/2024.
*Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) died 08/21/2024.
So, if the Democrats maintain those 2 vacancies, that makes it 220 to 214.
All of the seats are up for re-election.
If just 4 seats flip, that makes it 218 to 216 Democrats.
It's a Trump "secret". If his "secret" is to try the same plan as last time, then it's not a great plan. If it's a new plan, then good chance it was dreamed up in Trump's syphilis brain and he thinks it's as clever as the time he unleashed the kraken.
He has the concept of a secret.
Mike Johnson needs to be impeached and prosecuted for sedition.
It's all one big seditious conspiracy, and it has been from the beginning. Until they start punishing them for their crimes none of it fucking matters. If the framers were alive today there is ample evidence they would have hung the lot for treason.
I've been arguing for a RICO case on the entire Republican party since 1/6.
It's not much of a fucking secret, Don, you fucking imbecile.
It's literally what you tried last time, and you literally can't shut the fuck up about it long enough for it to stay secret.
Trump couldn't be any fucking worse at keeping a secret.
That's why Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea want him elected. Dumb bastard gave away the location of a multi-billion dollar spy satellite. so he could shake his tiny dick at the world in a weird flex.
Imagine that actually goes through and one of the Republicans actually gets a conscience and falls on his sword and throws in for Kamala.
There are actually enough Republicans who won't go for this. It's a stupid plan. I'm sure there are already contingency plans to prevent this dumb shit from even getting there.
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