‘What’s he confessing to?’ Trump’s Mike Johnson ‘secret’ draws Electoral College concerns
‘What’s he confessing to?’ Trump’s Mike Johnson ‘secret’ draws Electoral College concerns
Donald Trump's six-hour Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night, filled with "anger, vitriol and racist threats," began almost immediately with the "joke heard around the world"—an attack calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean"—and ended with 80 minutes of Dona...
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""A tie in the Electoral College will then require a vote in the House of Representatives, where the GOP, led by Speaker Johnson, has a (thin) majority....""
Except that the new Congress is sworn in on 1/2.
Right now the Republican majority is 220 to 212 with 3 vacancies.
*Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) resigned effective 04/25/2024. b
*Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) died 07/19/2024.
*Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) died 08/21/2024.
So, if the Democrats maintain those 2 vacancies, that makes it 220 to 214.
All of the seats are up for re-election.
If just 4 seats flip, that makes it 218 to 216 Democrats.