Donald Trump’s scheme to install his own electors falls completely to pieces
This week the Atlantic published a bizarre article spelling out a scenario in which Donald Trump somehow manages to get states to let him install his own electors in the Electoral College, and them simply names himself the winner. It’s an almost laughably impossible scenario, but the Atlantic presented it as if it were realistic, or even a foregone conclusion.
The article has set off a firestorm of hand wringing, fretting, and histrionic declarations that all hope is lost. But if anyone would put any scrutiny at all into what they’re reading, they’d see that the article is essentially a work of fiction, crafted solely to try to scare people into giving it as many page views as possible (which has certainly worked).
For instance, author and lawyer Teri Kanefield has gone through the Atlantic article and dismantled it piece by piece, in a long Twitter thread which spells out why things simply don’t work the way that the article presupposes they do. In some states, what the article is describing would be literally impossible.
Kanefield also points out that Trump’s own people fed this story to the Atlantic, because they want this to be the story. They want people to conclude that Trump is going to magically win no matter what, so they’ll stop putting in the work required to defeat him. As Palmer Report often likes to point out, no one carries out a secret evil plan by announcing it publicly. When these kinds of narratives get fed to the media, they’re always a bluff, and never an actual viable plan. You can read Kanefield’s full thread here.
