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SIX REPUBLICANS ON THE SUPREME COURT JUST ANNOUNCED — A STORY THAT HAS LARGELY FLOWN UNDER THE NATION ’ S POLITICAL RADAR — THAT THEY ’ LL CONSIDER PRE-RIGGING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024 .
Here ’ s how one aspect of it could work out , if they go along with the GOP ’ s arguments that will be before the Court this October :
It ’ s November 2024 , and the presidential race between Biden and DeSantis has been tabulated by the states and called by the networks . Biden won 84,355,740 votes to DeSantis ’ 77,366,412 , clearly carrying the popular vote .
But the popular vote isn ’ t enough : George W . Bush lost to Al Gore by a half-million votes and Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton by 3 million votes but both ended up in the White House . What matters is the Electoral College vote , and that looks good for Biden , too .
As CNN is reporting , the outcome is a virtual clone of the 2020 election : Biden carries the same states he did that year and DeSantis gets all the Trump states . It ’ s 306 to 232 in the Electoral College , a 74-vote Electoral College lead for Biden , at least as calculated by CNN and the rest of the media . Biden is heading to the White House for another 4 years .
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