So, we finally have a statement of the Trump game plan for January 6th courtesy of the Washington Examiner.
Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign, told Just the News on Monday that Vice President Mike Pence, who as president of the Senate announces the results of the vote in each state and asks for any objections, could refuse to do so for several battleground states won by Biden but contested by Trump.
Instead, she said, Pence could send a request to legislatures from these six states where claims of voter fraud and irregularities have been levied — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — to decide whether to accept the electors for Biden or the self-appointed ones who back Trump.
"Pence should require a timely response from each state legislature and set a deadline of Jan. 17," she said. "If any state legislature fails to provide a timely response, no electoral votes can be opened and counted from that state. The Constitution provides that if no candidate for President receives a majority of electoral votes, the Congress shall vote by state delegation. This would provide two and one-half days for Congress to meet and vote by delegation prior to January 20 at noon for inauguration."
One would hope that the joint session of Congress would go absolutely ape shit if Pence tried this and simply call in Chuck Grassley, the Senate president pro tempore, to announce the votes for him.
Two days to go.
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