Final Countdown to the Trump Shitshow.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Here’s an interesting, but highly unlikely, scenario:

Trump and Biden tie at 268 electoral votes each. The means that state delegations in the House get to pick the next president. After some backroom deal-making, enough Republican delegations (I think it would only take two, but I can’t be arsed to look it up)decide they’ve had it up to HERE with Trump’s antics, and side with the Democratic delegations and Hey Presto, Biden is your next President.

BUT...the Senate gets to pick the Vice President. If Republicans maintain control of the Senate (as looks increasingly likely), they’ll pick Pence.

A Democratic President and a Republican VP. How cool is THAT??

Boru

Um my understanding is that the house gets to decide who picks if neither gets to 270?

But media right now is leaning to both Wisconsin and Michigan to Biden, which for now fucks Trump Royal clusterfuck family.

It’s not that simple. The House picks the president if there’s a tie, but it’s not a per-member vote. All of the Representatives from each state get one vote between them, so a candidate would need 26 votes (50% +1) to be president.

As an illustration, let’s say California has 20 Representatives in the US House and 15 of them are Democrats (I don’t know the actual numbers, but for this illustration, it doesn’t matter). So, they vote among themselves and then cast ONE vote for their preferred candidate - in this case, Biden. Each state gets one vote, not each representative.

Boru