While there’s abundant evidence Trump is willing to contest an adverse election result, it’s unlikely Joe Biden would trigger a constitutional crisis
Is this the face of a revolutionary? Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images We have a president running for reelection who has never met an asinine right-wing “voter fraud” theory he didn’t embrace and promote; wouldn’t completely accept the results of the election he won in 2016 on the 100 percent unsupported grounds that Hillary Clinton benefited from “millions of illegal votes”; has specifically refused to say he’d accept a 2020 defeat; has spent months demonizing the mail ballots that may...
In an inspired bit of whataboutism, the Washington Examiner’s Byron York dives deep into one of these essays in political science fiction to pluck out a scenario where it’s Joe Biden and his supporters who defy a defeat, according to the prevailing constitutional rules of the road. Hang onto your butts for this wild ride, folks:
Lord have mercy. Where to begin untangling this fantasy of revolutionary blue America and its Lenin, Joe Biden? But getting from there to some real effort to thwart Trump’s election is really a reach. Under the scenario York quotes, Democratic governors in two states send lists of Biden electors to Washington as rivals to Trump electors selected by legislators . While there is an ancient argument as to whether state legislators have the sole constitutional power to choose electors , I know of no theory where governors can unilaterally name electors.
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