The GOP Needs To Anticipate Leftist Threats To The Electoral College In Coming Years – Opinion

It should have been obvious during the few moments of lucidity from Joe Biden’s weird ranting lately: the electoral college is in the Democrats’ crosshairs now that the GOP has taken election integrity more seriously and the Dem administration that was supposed to save the country from Trump has turned out to be such a massive failure. Democrat presidential future wins seem as possible as Democrat midterms victories.

We can’t tell Democrats that they will resort to desperation and attack the electoral college, which is a tactic that has never been popular. Biden said it to us just recently.

“It’s about who gets to count the vote”

Joe Biden is echoing Joseph Stalin now

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— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) December 15, 2021

The following are the New York PostYou can also quote the speech from here:

President Biden vowed Tuesday night that Democrats would make gains in next year’s midterm elections, a result that would defy the political odds as the White House grapples with a series of crises.

“We have to keep making the case,” Biden said at a holiday party attended by 400 Democratic National Committee officials and donors in Washington. “And if we do, I believe we’re going to win.

“Let me say this again for the press: We’re going to win in 2022.”

Moments earlier, the president had told Republicans eyeing a return to the majority in the House and Senate next year: “Get ready, pal. You’re going in for a problem.”

Many pointed to the gut-churning analogy with Joseph Stalin. This bloody Soviet dictator, who oversaw millions of deaths but didn’t give a damn about Democracy, was criticized by many.

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how,” Stalin reportedly told his former secretary Boris Bazhanov in 1923.

That’s a point well taken. But he’s also referring to who counts the votes as it relates to the electoral college, as these two academics note in a piece at The Hill.

Some even would have state legislatures select their Electoral College electors, thereby ignoring that state’s popular vote won by the Democratic presidential candidate.

Because Republicans control 30 state legislatures, these efforts obviously are meant to tilt — and likely decide — the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

Under these circumstances, everyone who believes in the popular vote — the bedrock of any democracy — should read and heed the guarantee articulated in Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The almost forgotten constitution text provides that if states interfere with the popular votes for the Electoral College, they will be subject to having their congressional delegation reduced. A state that loses House seats also loses Electoral College vote.

That’s right. The move is punish the GOP if they “interfere” in how electors are chosen by reducing the size of their delegation in Congress and ensure a smaller electoral college vote for Republicans.

Democrats have a unique tendency to reveal their plans before they enact them, and then write entire polemics explaining why they were necessary after they’ve disrupted every norm they could (see: the 2020 election and that very strange Time MagazineThis article is about how to fortify the election.

As Jim Inhofe, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma and Trent England the executive director at Save Our States write, National ReviewThe GOP should pay more attention to the tactics of the left to take over the electoral process. Before it happens, and work now to flip the narrative of “interference” in the choosing of electors to where it belongs — back on Democrats.

Nearly all power in elections is reserved to the States by the Constitution. The Constitution requires that the state legislatures decide how to best represent their state at the Electoral College. Federal officials are prohibited from being elected to the presidency by this law. The Electoral Counts Act of 1887 reiterates this constitutional design by limiting federal power to interfere in states’ electoral-vote counting — no matter how good the intentions or real the concerns of members of Congress.

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When they created a system for government to delicately balance power between urban and rural communities as well as between coastal and inland communities, our great American Founding Fathers understood what they were doing. The Electoral College, a crucial part of this system, is a guarantee that, while candidates might refer to Oklahoma as “flyover country”, Oklahomans have the same power and voice when it comes to electing their presidents. This institution is vital to the survival of our republic.

If the GOP is serious about winning in 2024 — especially after they make the gains everyone thinks they will in the 2022 midterms — they need to get in front of the shenanigans the left has planned instead of playing catch-up as they have so often in the past. They depend on the country to get gas and food.