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If this is true, which is highly skeptical, it would not work at all and would easily allow Hillary to win the election.
The Repubs created Trump. They need to deal with it.
It’s hidden there in plain sight, even if it hasn’t happened since the election of 1825
In a three-way race, it’s unlikely any candidate would win a majority of electoral votes, and then the power to choose the president would be taken out of the hands of the American people and thrown to Congress. The fact is, even if I were to receive the most popular votes and the most electoral votes, victory would be highly unlikely, because most members of Congress would vote for their party’s nominee. Party loyalists in Congress — not the American people or the Electoral College — would determine the next president.Here’s how it will happen:
Donald Trump is going to win the Republican nomination out right. The establishment won’t be able to stop him. He will get 50%. So there will be no brokered convention. There will be no Mitt Romney savior moment in Cleveland.
When Trump secures the nomination out right this summer, the establishment goes ballistic: Terrified at the prospect of losing their party with Donald Trump as president.
Suddenly they realize, “holy , what if we could stop Donald Trump and keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House?”
So they run a moderate establishment Republican as a third-party candidate — 100% as a spoiler candidate. Worst case scenario oh, they prevent Donald Trump from winning the White House. Best case scenario they pull enough votes away from Hillary Clinton to prevent her from securing the necessary majority of 270 electoral votes.
Then the election goes to a House of Representatives ballot presided over Speaker Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s former running mate in 2012.
If neither candidate gets 270 electoral college votes, Congress picks the president. And he will be called President Mitt, the one who is laying the groundwork for this doomsday electoral scenario.
It’s right there, hidden in plain sight in the 12th Amendment of the US Cons ution:
The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.
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If this is true, which is highly skeptical, it would not work at all and would easily allow Hillary to win the election.
The Repubs created Trump. They need to deal with it.
how would it not work?
When this happens again I hope people burn Washington to the ground. LOL our re ed cons ution making it impossible to have a third party without this kind of happening.
The voters like believing their votes count. Don't piss in their cheerios or you will see your voters not voting anymore.
The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.
Congress would have to choose from the nominees.
Trump is unstoppable at this point. Nice pipe dream losers
There would be riots in the streets (possibly) if that were to happen.
The 12th amendment sounded all fine and dandy back when it was written. But we could have a mutiny on our hands if a congress with a 14% approval rating were to pick the president in this year of anti-establishment hysteria.
no riots when Scalia elected dubya/ head to go war on Iraq. what's changed?
Trump is certainly priming his KKK/white supremacist goons for rioting.
Yeah.....If the Dems went to a brokered convention and pulled out Gore there would be equal disgust which is why I don't think this is what is gonna happen....more than likely there is an alliance between Trump-Kasich or Trump-Cruz to unify the wing-nuts
A 3rd candidate as the anti-Trump could probably get enough votes to give the candidate enough legitimacy.
Repugs should do it, they have shown they are capable of anything, esp ignoring Human-Americans to favor Corporate-Americans.
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