Very Legal & Very Coup
Trump Campaign electoral strategies:
* Win the support of a majority of the electorate (arguably they were never here).
* Win a narrow electoral college victory with the support of just a plurality of the electorate.
* Win a narrow electoral college victory with the support of not even a plurality (2016).
* Apparently lose the election, but prove in court that the count was incorrect and actually you won.
* Get state courts to agree that something was procedurally wrong and also isn't it suspicious that your opponent won, and that therefore the entire election should be thrown out.
* Get friendly state legislatures to try to retroactively walk back the whole "having an election" thing.
* Get federal courts to say that the state courts ruled wrongly and therefore the remedy is to disenfranchise an entire state.
* Same thing but with SCOTUS.
* Same thing but getting Texas and seventeen other states to combine into some sort of sedition Voltron and throw themselves at the Supreme Court, arguing that four specific states should be disenfranchised because state courts had some incorrect effect on how the election was conducted, but not other states where the same thing happened but having their vote thrown out wouldn't help you win.
* Have someone (the campaign?) select fake electors chosen by no state government (we are here), then have the Vice President present those to Congress as the real electors and try to get them accepted as the real electors somehow. Or at least get the electors tossed from states you didn't win. (That's January 6, so who knows? They don't have the votes, but may give it a try.)
* Leave office, but continue to claim you're the "real President".
(On a related note, congrats to President-Elect Biden and Vice-President-Elect Harris for pulling off that first electoral strategy.) This entry was originally posted on Dreamwith.
comments are there.
* Win the support of a majority of the electorate (arguably they were never here).
* Win a narrow electoral college victory with the support of just a plurality of the electorate.
* Win a narrow electoral college victory with the support of not even a plurality (2016).
* Apparently lose the election, but prove in court that the count was incorrect and actually you won.
* Get state courts to agree that something was procedurally wrong and also isn't it suspicious that your opponent won, and that therefore the entire election should be thrown out.
* Get friendly state legislatures to try to retroactively walk back the whole "having an election" thing.
* Get federal courts to say that the state courts ruled wrongly and therefore the remedy is to disenfranchise an entire state.
* Same thing but with SCOTUS.
* Same thing but getting Texas and seventeen other states to combine into some sort of sedition Voltron and throw themselves at the Supreme Court, arguing that four specific states should be disenfranchised because state courts had some incorrect effect on how the election was conducted, but not other states where the same thing happened but having their vote thrown out wouldn't help you win.
* Have someone (the campaign?) select fake electors chosen by no state government (we are here), then have the Vice President present those to Congress as the real electors and try to get them accepted as the real electors somehow. Or at least get the electors tossed from states you didn't win. (That's January 6, so who knows? They don't have the votes, but may give it a try.)
* Leave office, but continue to claim you're the "real President".
(On a related note, congrats to President-Elect Biden and Vice-President-Elect Harris for pulling off that first electoral strategy.) This entry was originally posted on Dreamwith.
comments are there.