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I would be delighted to think he was trolling. For me, I cannot get past the 2020 election and the whole "alternate electors" thing. That has been done before
by AnimalMuppet 1y ago
I would be delighted to think he was trolling.
For me, I cannot get past the 2020 election and the whole "alternate electors" thing. That has been done before, IIRC in 1960 for Hawaii. For a while it wasn't clear who won, and so there was an alternate slate of electors for a while. By the time the Electoral College voted, though, it was clear, and only one slate of electors was put forward.
In contrast, in 2020, Trump put forward the alternate electors, and pressured Pence to accept them as the real ones. He pressured Pence more than once. When part of the crowd on January 6 was shouting "hang Mike Pence", that's why. That was a deliberate, determined attempt to steal an election that he lost.
That colors my view of events like this. Trolling? Could be. But he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt from me on whether he's willing to try to do illegal things.