Dealing with Trump at the Final Finish Line, By Chris Knight (Florida)
Suppose Trump did win the 2024 election. Then the bizarre situation will arise that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris will be authorised to certify the election results. Thus, the person Trump defeats then has the power in principle not to certify the election! What happens then? It is a clear problem in the US system which does not exist in countries like Australia, where the results are handled by an independent body, the Australian Electoral Commission. Thus, the US political system could be thrown into chaos, perhaps with a bigger and better repeat of January 6 2021.
I imagine that in the end the Supreme Court will sort it out. But imagine if court stacking is done. A dictatorship would arise with self-confirming loops of power. These logical problems with the US constitution and democracy have been discussed in the scholarly literature: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/kurt-godels-loophole-and-donald-trumps-defiance; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2010183.
https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/if-trump-wins-guess-who-will-be-in
Trump still faces the legal threat of prison as Joe Biden has recently reaffirmed, so he still may be knocked out the way anyway; I can just feel that something dirty will happen given how dirty this political swamp now is:
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