By Aaron Feis November 5, 2020
When Inauguration Day rolls around on Jan. 20, if Trump has exhausted his legal challenges and physically refuses to leave the White House premises, Biden said in June that he was “absolutely convinced” the military would remove Trump “with great dispatch.”
But Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NPR last month that he intends to keep the military out of any election disputes.
With the final vote in dispute, states with Democratic governors but Republican legislatures — including the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin, the latter two of which have already been called for Biden — could conceivably end up dispatching two distinct groups of Electoral College voters, reported Marie Claire, citing a study by election scholar Edward B. Foley.
In that scenario, those states would have two competing sets of electoral votes, and, as president of the Senate, Republican Vice President Mike Pence would be tasked with unraveling the situation. Read HERE.
What has Trump said about accepting election results?
Basically, that he won’t do so if they don’t show an outright win for him. Trump has also repeatedly implied that the only way he would accept a Biden win is through a Supreme Court battle, which is why he moved so quickly in filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat with an ultra-conservative judge.
Experts have predicted that, in a worst-case scenario, Trump’s refusal to accept the results would kickstart a Constitutional crisis, as well as widespread unrest and potentially violent partisan clashes. According to the Transition Integrity Project’s report, “The potential for violent conflict is high, particularly since Trump encourages his supporters to take up arms.” Read HERE.