Won’t they require a “deep clean”, with harsh industrial chemicals to decontaminate the place prior to Biden moving in? (what with the high levels of covid contamination, not to mention the cockroaches from all the cheeseburger wrappers and KFC buckets sitting around)
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Not usually. Even your own link describes it as rare.
It’s only happened 165 times over the course of US history. The bulk of them before 1900. And only 12 in the last 20 years. Mostly 2016 protest votes for 3rd party candidates from DNC electors.
And it’s only really impacted the outcome once.
Most states restrict faithless electors, invalidating their votes and/or dropping the total number of electoral votes and penalizing the electors.
Trump lost multiple lawsuits on this subject and gained no traction on his attempts to promote a campaign predicated on the idea. If there are faithless electors it’s likely to look at lot like 2016. Where the losing side uses it for political messaging.
This comes up every year because the media is fascinated with it. But it’s pretty much precluded in modern politics. Especially in recent elections. And it’s only as much of a thing because the right has spent so much time trying and failing to force it, and openly fantasizing about it.
So less “usually” than “Qanon enthusiast furiously masturbate to the concept”. Probably best not to give that horse shit undue weight.
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I saw a joke elsewhere to cut the cable and internet to the white house to flush him out.
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Came here to post the same: the SCOTUS upheld that laws requiring electors to vote for their pledged candidates were constitutional, bit it doesn’t apply to electors from states without such laws.
I suspect Trump is also hoping the narrative will help save him in the near future. Assuming that – somehow… in spite of, or absent, a Pence pardon – Trump gets snagged on federal charges, a Trumpism-powered road-blocking GOP could thwart Biden’s efforts and consequently help get one of their own in the WH – one who’d pardon him. That thinking – as unrealizable as a goal may be – is likely too granular for Trump’s pea-brain, but I can see his animal reaction to events now conjuring up a general fantasy version of that. With a shitstorm hitting him after 1/20, only the GOP can save him.
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and seein’s how he seems to do so much of his internettin’ from the “throne room”, we may have to break him up with a stick to get him to flush!
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And that’s California, so fuck you 37 days remaining President Trump.
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Send in the electric eels!
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Umm… By this point you should know that it’s traditional to punch the nazis.
(though a chance at a ruptured testicle is minimal compared to what he’s earned)
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And that is still a problem, because they want large numbers of Americans to actual believe that the vote was rigged against him, and the presidency was stolen from him. Whether or not it’s about bring money in hardly matters if a large percentage of the population believe this and act upon it. By contesting an election that experts have agreed is the most secure in US history, with little to no actual fraud happening, it not only brings in cash, it further destabilizes democratic practices here in the US.
It’s not about his intent, it’s about what his actions are actually doing to our political systems, which is essentially trying to burn them down on his way out.
In this case SCOTUS ruled that each individual state has the right to enforce it’s election laws.
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