A potential plan by Republican leaders to steal the 2024 presidential election. The plan involves delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states, potentially decreasing the overall number of electors appointed and allowing Donald Trump to win the presidency through a contingent election, whereby the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College, determines the president.
I donāt understand. Isnāt it the VP who certifies the results, anyway? Or does it pass down to Speaker, since sheās running?
The VP certifies the results received by the deadline. That wouldnāt change anything here, and she would be obligated to declare Trump the winner. Like Pence, the VP canāt decide not to certify legitimate results submitted to congress by the deadline. The point here is that select blue states wonāt make the deadline through republican stalling, SCOTUS wonāt āinterfereā in the election by adjudication, so the VP is required to only consider the full electors submitted by the deadline. And it would be perfectly valid at the federal level. The state actors might be committing a crime by stalling, but Trump will pardon them, so they really have little risk.