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Congress was set to certify the election that day. Had the insurrection succeeded, Mike Pence likely would have been killed (remember the "hang Mike Pence" slog

Congress was set to certify the election that day. Had the insurrection succeeded, Mike Pence likely would have been killed (remember the "hang Mike Pence" slogan?), along with Democrats in Congress. This would have allowed Trump to remain "president" indefinitely, especially because any election he wouldn't win would be "fraudulent". It was an extremely important moment for our country.

ryan93 5y ago
Congress doesn’t need to be in that building to certify. How would trump have stayed president? You just glide over that part
- willis936 5y ago
  If the executive decapitates the legislative how would the executive individual stay in power?
- ModernMech 5y ago
  The law says what the process is on Jan 6. It is silent as to what happens if the process on Jan 6 is disrupted. There is no law that brings them back together, so if they don’t finish their job on that day, they would have entered a Constitutional grey area, a kind of hack of the electoral process system. Trump needed such a hack because the regular order would have, and did, end with him losing power. This is why Pence refused to leave the Capitol, McConnell insisted on finishing the certification that night, and Trump’s associates were furiously calling Senators to continue delaying the certification (even after the insurrection).
ng12 5y ago
If they had killed Mike Pence I have absolute faith they would have been thrown in jail forever and the Speaker would have taken over his duties certifying the election. If all that's standing between us and fascism/anarchy is 2,000 people choosing to walk into the Capitol we are already lost.
- ModernMech 5y ago
  The duty of certifying the election falls to the President of the Senate, not Speaker of the House. It would have been up to Republicans to replace him. It’s possible in such a scenario they would have replaced him with someone who was willing to decertify the election and initiate a contested election, which would have then enabled Trump to be installed over Joe Biden.

ryan93 5y ago

Congress doesn’t need to be in that building to certify. How would trump have stayed president? You just glide over that part

willis936 5y ago
If the executive decapitates the legislative how would the executive individual stay in power?
ModernMech 5y ago
The law says what the process is on Jan 6. It is silent as to what happens if the process on Jan 6 is disrupted. There is no law that brings them back together, so if they don’t finish their job on that day, they would have entered a Constitutional grey area, a kind of hack of the electoral process system. Trump needed such a hack because the regular order would have, and did, end with him losing power. This is why Pence refused to leave the Capitol, McConnell insisted on finishing the certification that night, and Trump’s associates were furiously calling Senators to continue delaying the certification (even after the insurrection).

ng12 5y ago

If they had killed Mike Pence I have absolute faith they would have been thrown in jail forever and the Speaker would have taken over his duties certifying the election. If all that's standing between us and fascism/anarchy is 2,000 people choosing to walk into the Capitol we are already lost.

ModernMech 5y ago
The duty of certifying the election falls to the President of the Senate, not Speaker of the House. It would have been up to Republicans to replace him. It’s possible in such a scenario they would have replaced him with someone who was willing to decertify the election and initiate a contested election, which would have then enabled Trump to be installed over Joe Biden.