The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker report Trump has raised the idea of state legislatures picking electors for him. She said she’s concerned Republicans are trying to use baseless claims of voter irregularities to take Biden’s 16 electoral votes away from him, even though he won the state by more than 148,000 votes. And state legislative leaders in both Michigan and Pennsylvania have expressed skepticism — if not outright denial — of having any plan to do this. ADBased on the way we expect results to turn out, Trump would need about 40 electors to defy their state’s popular vote for Biden and cast ballots for Trump when the electoral college meets in mid-December. AD“Altogether, there have been 23,507 electoral votes counted across 58 presidential elections,” says the nonpartisan voting advocacy group Fair Vote.

Source: Washington Post November 12, 2020 19:36 UTC