Donald Trump's six-hour Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night, filled with "anger, vitriol and racist threats," began almost immediately with the "joke heard around the world"—an attack calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean"—and ended with 80 minutes of Dona...
  • Nougat@fedia.io
    4·
    6 hours ago

    That’s fair, but I was catching this from the article:

    Professor of law Melissa Murray, a constitutional law expert and co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast, appears to agree.

    “So, the plan is to have an Electoral College tie (which will likely require contesting swing state vote counts),” she writes. “A tie in the Electoral College will then require a vote in the House of Representatives, where the GOP, led by Speaker Johnson, has a (thin) majority…”

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Yeah, I saw that in the article, and immediately dismissed it for all the reasons I already stated.

      Plus, many of the more likely tie scenarios involve Nebraska, one of only two states which appoint EC votes based on congressional district. If Harris wins the lone vote for the district with Omaha in it, it makes it far less likely to end in a tie. Maybe That’s what Trump is on about, then: more pressure on Nebraska to change its EC allocation process.