https://thepalmierireport.com/historian-predicts-trump-to-win-with-between-320-340-electoral-votes/
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), told reporters last Thursday she is prepping House Democrats for a possible role in determining the winner of November’s election should there be no clear winner after the smoke settles.
But, if the Electoral College deadlocks and neither President Trump nor his challenger, Joe Biden, is declared the winner, each House state delegation would be charged with casting one vote for president. That vote is predicated on the majority party in each delegation.
Pelosi said she is shooting for Democrats to cast at least 26 votes, the smallest majority possible. In that eventuality the White House would go to Biden.
If, after the House is charged with voting, a majority has still not emerge for either Trump or Biden, Pelosi said, “then it goes into another range where the Speaker becomes the [president]. It’s complicated after that.”
With the Senate charged with determining the vice president, a successful process would avoid a Speaker-to-President scenario.
But if the House vote tied at 25-25 and the Senate failed to agree on a vice president, Pelosi would become acting president, this according to the 1947 Presidential Succession Act.
The US Constitution requires the certification of the election by Congress on January 6, 2021, which is just a few days after a new Congress is seated.
As it stands now, Republicans have the advantage in state delegations.
Pelosi has been whipping Democrats to focus on flipping seats in Alaska and Montana. These delegations now have GOP majorities. Pennsylvania’s delegation is tied at nine, so a pick-up in November could give the Democrats the edge.
https://nationalfile.com/pelosi-voices-plans-for-chaotic-failed-election-scenario-where-speaker-becomes-potus/
No nation can survive if it teaches its children to hate their country.
https://twitter.com/InezFeltscher/status/1313545787599728640
Adam Silver sat down for an interview with Rachel Nichols on NBA Countdown earlier this week, and indicated that the social justice messaging that you see on the courts and the backs of players’ jerseys will be “largely left off the floor” next season
https://www.outkick.com/adam-silver-nba-social-justice-messaging-will-be-largely-left-off-the-court-next-season/
Hundreds of members of the Borough Park Orthodox community took to the streets Tuesday night defying orders to disperse and lighting a fire in protest of new state mandated restrictions imposed on area synagogues, schools and non-essential businesses over a COVID-19 surge.
One large crowd huddled closely together at the corner of 50th Street and 15th avenue at about 9 p.m. as community activist Heshy Tischler ripped Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio over the order that shuts down schools completely and limits houses of worship to 10 people in certain COVID-19 hot spots.
Much of Borough Park is subject to those measures — the most restrictive — which also shutters non-essential businesses. The level of restrictions, broken down into three color-coded categories, are guided by coronavirus diagnosis data.
“It’s called civil disobedience, we can fight back,” Tischler told the crowd after tearing up his face mask. “Do not allow them to torture you or scare you,” he said, referring to the elected officials.
The closures must be made no later than Friday — though a spokesman for de Blasio tweeted that they would likely begin Thursday — and run for at least two weeks.
Councilman Kalman Yeger later showed up at another protest on 13th Avenue, according to Boro Park News.
There, the lawmaker told the crowd: “We are not going to be deprived of the right that we have in America, like everybody else in America, the right to observe our religion.”
https://nypost.com/2020/10/07/nyc-orthodox-community-protests-new-coronavirus-restrictions/