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If both Trump and Biden do not get at least 270 electoral votes, the House of Representatives will decide who is elected. In this case, the delegation of each state has one vote, which is decided by the members of the delegation. Currently, the House delegation is the Republican majority.
Brooks told FM Talk 1065: “In the House of Representatives, there are 26, possibly 27 delegations with a majority of Republican congressmen and 20 delegations with a majority of Democratic congressmen.”
“In my opinion, if the Electoral College decision is limited to the legal votes of eligible American citizens, then Biden has not won in the Electoral College,” he said.
If the House of Representatives decides who is elected president, the Senate decides who is elected vice president. Currently, the Republican Party has a 50-48 majority in the Senate. Elections for two key seats in Georgia will be held on January 5.
Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard University, shares the same opinion with Brooks. He said: “Trump is challenging the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin and Arizona, that is, filing legal proceedings and counting the requirements to prevent Biden from getting 270 votes.”
“If Trump’s team can always prevent Biden from reaching 270 electoral votes, it can move the election to the House of Representatives. In the House of Representatives, the state delegation is the Republican majority. Trump follows the rules of the three general elections. 19th century “. Xiaoweiz said.
The three 19th century elections mentioned by Dershowitz were Thomas Jefferson’s victory in 1801, John Quincy Adams’s victory in 1824, and Rutherford in 1877. ‧Birchard Hayes (Rutherford Birchard Hayes) won the elections.
In the general elections of 1801, both Jefferson and Burr received 73 electoral votes, according to the Constitution, the House of Representatives will elect the president. The two parties at the time were the Democratic Republican Party and the Federal Party. The Federal Party had a majority in the House of Representatives, which controlled 8 states, and the Democratic Republican Party controlled 7 states. After a total of 36 rounds of voting, Jefferson won the support of 10 states, Burr won the support of 4 states, and 2 states abstained.
After the election, the United States Congress made the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution. In the 1824 election, none of the four candidates obtained more than half of the electoral votes. In the end, the House of Representatives voted that Adams won the support of 13 states and was elected.
(Epoch Times reporter Zachary Stieber contributed to this article.)
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