Until the announcement comes out of Georgia . Although Biden won the popular vote in Georgia , their legislature decided it can overrule the popular vote and just awarded the state ’ s 16 electoral votes to DeSantis instead of Biden .
An hour later we hear from five other states with Republican-controlled legislatures where Biden won the majority of the vote , just like he had in 2020 : North Carolina ( 15 electoral votes ), Wisconsin ( 10 ), Michigan ( 16 ), Pennsylvania ( 20 ) and Arizona ( 11 ).
Each has followed Georgia ’ s lead and their legislatures have awarded their Electoral College votes — even though Biden won the popular vote in each state — to DeSantis .
Thus , a total of 88 Electoral College votes from those six states move from Biden to DeSantis , who ’ s declared the winner and will be sworn in on January 20 , 2025 .
Wolf Blitzer announces that DeSantis has won the election , and people pour into the streets to protest . They ’ re met with a hail of bullets as Republican-affiliated militias have been rehearsing for this exact moment and their allies among the police refuse to intervene .
After a few thousand people lay dead in the streets of two dozen cities , the police begin to round up the surviving “ instigators ,” who are charged with seditious conspiracy for resisting the Republican legislatures of their states .
After he ’ s sworn in on January 20th , President DeSantis points to the ongoing demonstrations , declares a permanent state of emergency , and suspends future elections , just as Trump had repeatedly told the world he planned for 2020 .
Sound far fetched ?
Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced that one of the first cases they ’ ll decide next year could include whether that very scenario is constitutional or not . And it almost certainly is .
Article II , Section 1 of the Constitution lays out the process clearly , and it doesn ’ t even once mention the popular vote or the will of the people :
“ Each State shall appoint , in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct , a Number of
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