Colorado has become the first to do it in American history. It bowed to the lusts of the left to an extent that other states (like Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, and Rhode Island) have been reluctant to do. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump must be booted from the 2024 ballot, for a crime he hasn’t been charged with, against an Amendment not intended to apply to the President. We have truly moved into banana republic territory – where you can vote for anyone you like, so long as he’s approved by the state.
Now states are competing in the “Who hates Trump most?” sweepstakes. The Secretary of State of Maine has announced that she will remove Trump from the ballot as well — using the Colorado decision as justification. Lawsuits to remove Trump from the ballot are pending in Alaska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Vermont, and Virginia.
I understand that Colorado has stayed its decision pending appeal, and many pundits are suggesting that the Supreme Court will quickly shut this move down before it gets out of hand and ends the American experiment altogether. I certainly hope it does. But I have the nagging recollection that the court chose to stay out of the business of elections in 2020. What if they do the same again? Fortunately, there is another remedy because advocates of the “boot Trump from the ballot” movement haven’t considered how the math works.
First, let’s take a look at the electoral college process. After the election, each state appoints a slate of electors, consistent with the election outcome in that state.
On January 3, the new Congress is sworn in. On January 6, the new Congress meets to oversee the electoral vote count and hear any objectives.
Here’s where it gets interesting. In 2022, Democrats worked with Republicans to pass the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act. Democrats were concerned about allowing a mere two members of Congress to protest the vote (as they’ve done in every election a Republican has won since 2000). They raised the threshold for objections to one fifth of each house of Congress, intending to prevent objections except for the most egregious transgressions – the Dems forgetting that they’re the party of egregious election transgressions. But Congress also changed the role of the Vice President to that of a ministerial functionary – with no authority to interfere. Cackles Harris won’t be able to use her position as the President of the Senate to do anything more than laugh inappropriately when the 2024 electoral vote counting starts.
If an objection is filed, both houses of Congress retire to their respective chambers to debate and vote on the objection. If both chambers uphold the objection, the contested electoral votes are excluded from the tally.
If no candidate reaches the required 270 electoral votes, the electoral college votes are discarded and the House of Representatives takes a vote to select the next President and Vice President.
As voters, we have a part to play in this grand drama. Republicans currently control the House (just barely). Democrats currently control the Senate, but only by the votes of 3 independents who caucus with them. But next year, Republicans have 10 senators up for reelection, while Democrats have 20 up for reelection – many from states in which Biden has soiled the bed. Despite the Republican propensity to fumble on the one-yard line, the math favors them to hold the House and take the Senate. Our job is to create enough enthusiasm to make sure that happens – and the Dems are helping us every time they indict the Donald.
I understand that Republicans are notorious for being spineless wimps, but they do have inspired moments. They became sufficiently outraged at Harry Reid’s treachery for Mitch McConnel to use the precedent set by Reid to take glorious revenge – moving the Supreme Court to the right for perhaps decades. Surely, we can convince Republicans that excluding Republicans from ballots is even more of an outrage than Reid changing the Senate rules to pack the courts. We need to impress on our representatives that we expect them to fight fire with fire – and the process gives them the means to do so.
Here’s where the math comes in. Let’s assume that Republicans manage to take both chambers of Congress, and also that both Colorado and California (or some combination of other states) decide to exclude Trump from the ballot. Further let’s make the outrageous assumption that Biden’s dumpster fire of an administration hasn’t cost him any votes, and the election of 2024 turns out exactly the same as the election of 2020 did – after a few late night broken water mains and arrival of the interstate ballot trucks. Trump ends up with 232 electoral votes, to Biden’s 306. The MSM declares Biden the clear winner. Jimmy Carter finds a microphone on which to declare the election “the fairest election in modern history.” Parties break out all over Washington, and Joe starts planning his next pallet load of executive orders to punish the semi-fascists. Everything is sunny for the leftists – until the electoral vote count begins on January 6.
After the counting of California’s votes, a Republican Senator objects on the grounds that the votes “were not lawfully certified” – just as Senator Barbara Boxer (D, Northern Mexico) did in 2004 against George W. Bush. If 4 judges can interpret “peacefully demonstrate” as a call for insurrection, Congress can interpret that booting political opponents from the ballot results in unlawful certification. 50 other Senators and 218 Congressmen (all Republican) agree. Then the same objection is made again after the counting of Colorado’s votes.
The House and Senate retire to their respective chambers to debate the objections. Concluding that what was done in California and Colorado was unfair election tampering resulting in unlawful certification, both chambers vote along party lines to exclude the electoral votes of those two states.
Biden’s electoral count is then reduced by 64 (55 for California, and 9 for Colorado), bringing his electoral count to 242. He falls well short of the 270 needed to win, requiring the House to select the next President and Vice President. On a party line vote, President Donald Trump is elected for his second term, with Ron DeSantis as his VP (because when the House chooses the President, the President doesn’t’ get to pick his Veep). The Democrats file a protest with the Supreme Court, but remembering the threats after the Dobbs decision, the court decides to stay on the sidelines. The left then commences another year of “mostly peaceful” burning cities down. In this scenario, two states which Biden would likely win anyway, end up costing him the election and triggering social unrest, because they chose to cheat.
I must ask: Have the Democrats considered all possible scenarios in their grand strategy to “get Trump”? Or have they again forsaken logic in favor of lust? In The Art of War, Sun Tzu cautioned against succumbing to anger:
Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life.
In their determination to destroy Trump, the left may turn America into something not easily remedied – and lose anyway.
Author Bio: John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He has written for American Thinker, and American Free News Network. He can be followed on Facebook or reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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