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P House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on House Democrats to prepare for an unusual electoral scenario in which the lower house of Congress will have to determine who wins the US presidential election, Reuters reported, quoted as saying. by BTA.
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In a letter to her fellow House Democrats, Pelosi said recent statements by President Donald Trump suggested that he would ask the House of Representatives to decide who won the election if it was unclear which of the two candidates (Trump or the candidate). Democrat Joe Biden) received the minimum 270 electoral college votes necessary to win the election.
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Trump has repeatedly expressed doubts about the security of voting by mail.. Counting the votes on mailed ballots can take time given the large number of people who are likely to choose to vote this way. Democrats fear that Trump will try to end the recount of these ballots prematurely and take the question of determining the winner to the House of Representatives.
According to the United States ConstitutionIn such a scenario, the representatives of the individual states in the House of Representatives will vote for the election of the new American president. Each state has one vote. Although the Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives of 232 congressmen (the Republican congressmen in the lower house of Congress are 198), the Republican Party has a majority in 26 of the US delegations. Democrats have a majority in 22 US delegations. In the Pennsylvania delegation, Republicans and Democrats are equally represented, and in Michigan, Democrats have seven representatives, Republicans six, and the last fourteenth congressman is a libertarian.
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Pelosi called on Democrats to do “everything they can” to win seats in the House of Representatives, which is currently held by Republicans. These seats would be of the utmost importance when it comes to the scenario in which the House of Representatives will have to elect a new president of the United States. Pelosi asked his colleagues to support the work of the House Political Action Committee, which aims to encourage the election of Democrats as members of the House.
“Since we cannot leave anything to chance, the House Political Action Committee is doing everything possible to win more (majority) delegations (from individual US states) from Democrats,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to his colleagues. Democrats.
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A spokesman for the Republican National Commission in Congress said Pelosi was trying to interfere in the presidential election.
“We welcome the opportunity to observe the attempts of San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi to interfere in the elections. Pelosi is the most unpopular politician in the United States,” said spokesman Michael McAdams.
