• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The gap here as far as I can read is that the house doesn’t certify their own results and they members elect the speaker before they get sworn in.

    So if the new Congress is majority Democrat, Mike Johnson can’t do anything about that, as the speaker is going to be selected by Democrats.

    Now the whole behavior in the event of an electoral tie is stupid, and that would probably be a trump victory, since each state has equal voice at that point.