It’s Not 270, It’s 26-24 *UPDATED*
Update from Andrea Widburg in The American Thinker
It’s Not 270, It’s 26-24 *UPDATED*
UPDATE from Andrea Widburg: There's even more cause for optimism. As I explained here, it's not the current House of Representatives that matters, it's the incoming House of Representatives:
Here's how that works: under the Twentieth Amendment, congressional terms end and begin on January 3, over two weeks before the newly elected president assumes office on January 20:
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
G.A.H. caught that Mr. Valentine was less optimistic than he should be and explains why looking forward to the new House is so important:
It is the NEW 2021 Congress which would vote, and due to R house pickups Nov 3, the Democrats have just lost three delegations, and are on the verge of losing a fourth. The Democrats have now lost control of, and are now tied in: MN (now 4R, 4D), and MI (now 7R, 7D) and PA (now 9R, 9D). IA is presently 2R, 1D, with the fourth seat [IA CD2] now only 161 votes apart -- if IA CD2 goes R, the final delegation split will be 27R, 20D, 3 Tied. If, on the other hand, IA CD2 goes D, then the final split will be 26R, 20D, 4 Tied.
I think this is very important, because when people see a headline like “26-24”, some may think there go the Republicans, trying to sneak in their ticket when the delegation split is only 26-24, just 1 state vote. . . . . but, given that the real split is 26-20 (or even 27-20, AND given that the Democrats just lost control of 3 (or 4 state if IA CD2 goes R) delegations on Nov 3, it is even more justified if the outcome of the Presidential election eventually goes to a House vote under the 12th Amendment, particularly since the American people just voted to take away 3 to 4 delegations from Democrat control.
P.S. This is also important, because in some universe it is conceivable that a 26-24 delegation with a couple of liberal RINO R delegation flips could possibly go Biden. Since it will actually be either 26-20 or 27-20, there is no way Biden could ever win the House voting by delegations under the 12th Amendment, because he actually has a 6 or 7 delegation deficit, NOT merely a 2 delegation deficit....
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/new_election_math_its_not_270_its_2624.html
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