Let me explain something about this "faithless electors" issue because I keep getting asked about it. This is the idea that the election could be overturned by Trump convincing electors in the electoral college to switch their votes. This will absolutely not happen. Here's why.
2/ The electors aren't random people or government bureaucrats. Each candidate has a slate of electors in each state chosen by the candidate, by the campaign. These are hardcore party loyalists and hardcore supporters of the candidate. They're going to think it over again ...
3/ and cast their vote for Trump? I don't think so. One might as well imagine that members of Biden's own campaign leadership are going to vote for Trump. The whole idea is absurd. The only case where the 'faithless elector' issue can come up is if there's some staggering ...
4/ scandal that somehow changes the equation. Even then it's basically impossible. Now in theory maybe you have one elector who just had some kind of psychotic break our personality transformation and switched candidates. If this were 270-268 it might be an extreme extreme...
5/ outside chance. But Biden is going to have like 75 more electors than Trump. This will simply never happen. I can think of ten other completely improbable things that maybe could happen. But this isn't one of them. This will never happen.
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