There was a lot of talk about a contingent election under the 12th Amendment, and, you know, that could have been done in conjunction with some kind of invocation of the Insurrection Act because that was another line that was being pushed hard by a number of people in Trump's inner circle. Even had they suffered the defection of Wyoming's at‑large representative, they still would have had 26 votes, and this is something that Donald Trump was very clearly aware of. So that would have allowed, theoretically for 27, 22, to 1 vote. The Democrats have 22 state delegations, and one state, Pennsylvania, is split down the middle with nine to nine. And they understood that after the 2020 elections, the GOP was in control of 27 state delegations. And if that were the case, under the 12th Amendment, it would have kicked the entire contest into the House of Representatives, and, you know, if you ask why they would want the House under Speaker Pelosi and Democratic control deciding who would be president and the Senate deciding who would be vice president under the 12th Amendment, well, they understood perfectly that under the 12th Amendment, we would be voting not on the basis of one member, one vote, which is how we usually vote, of course, but on the basis of one state delegation, one vote. In other words, they wanted him to just single‑handedly nullify the votes of tens of millions of people, from Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, perhaps Nevada, New Mexico, and that would have either just clinched it for Donald Trump in the electoral college, or what it would have done is to create a situation where nobody had a majority in the electoral college votes cast. You know, as I understand it, the purpose was to try to get Pence to exercise these totally unprecedented and lawless unilateral powers asserted by Donald Trump that Pence had to reject electoral college votes.
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