And that thin reed is what the Trump legal team has been hanging their entire case on. So, Article II of the Constitution does give state legislatures the power to determine the manner in which the electors in their state will be selected. But what might that look like? And then, does Trump still have any possibility, at least from a legal point of view? Alan Hirsch It doesn’t really look like that’s going to happen. One of the possibilities that seems a little bit far-fetched at the moment, although a few days ago it didn’t seem quite so far-fetched, is that the Electoral College could be manipulated by Republican-controlled state legislatures or Republican governors. Well, let’s just break down the current situation just a little bit more. But again, what I call an election crisis is when after the voting, we don’t know who won - in particular, when we don’t have a reliable mechanism for determining who won. The president seems determined to manufacture a political crisis, which, worst case, would morph into a constitutional crisis. The election was actually administered extremely effectively and it produced a clear winner. But if there is one, it’s not an election crisis. Well, whether there’s a crisis or not remains to be seen. Is there, in fact, an election crisis going on with these various lawsuits? Or is it kind of Trump theatrics and in reality, this election is over and there isn’t really actually a crisis? Alan Hirsch So, first of all, start with the current situation. Anylogic in three days how to#He’s the author of A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One). To talk about the current situation, the history of election crises, and what should be done about the Electoral College is Alan Hirsch. And who knows, maybe the Trump shenanigans aren’t over yet. But without the pandemic, it could have been otherwise. While Trump is doing whatever he can to create such a crisis, the results of the 2020 election does not seem in doubt. He says the Electoral College also greatly increases the possibilities of fraud and uncertain results and thus more post-election crises. As conservative pundit George Will said a few years ago, elections are for deciding which section of the elites govern, not whether the elite shall govern.Īnd according to our guest, the Electoral College may also have been introduced to reinforce white supremacy. It was established to allow a kind of steering of election results if the mobs and democracy get out of hand - that is, out of the hands of the elites. If it were a direct election, there wouldn’t have been a President Trump. It’s not the popular vote that wins its Electoral-College votes. Thanks for joining us and be back in a second.Įveryone who follows American elections knows it takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. So, if you donate in the next little while, it will double your donation. Facebook, podcast - come on over to the website!Īnd this is the first time I’ve told anybody this, but we have a $10,000 matching grant that a viewer just wrote in saying they would like to offer. If you’re on a podcast platform, same thing. If you’re watching on YouTube, come on over to theAnalysis.News. Welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast, and please don’t forget the donate button at the top of the Web page that’s on our website. Hirsch joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast. Alan Hirsch, author of A Short History of Presidential Elections Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One), says while there is no election crisis now – Biden’s win is definitive – the electoral college is undemocratic and increases the possibilities of fraud, uncertain results, and more post-election crises.
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