Thread by @gabrielmalor

This strategy relies on a misunderstanding of how electors can be chosen.

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1329525481595674625

Here's the short version. Electors clause provides that "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, ..."

So the Trump try-hard theory is that the legislatures can just pop up at any time and appoint new Trump electors.

What they miss, however, is that two clauses later, the Constitution provides that "Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors . . ."

That time, of course, was election day, Nov. 3 this year.

And each state legislature had already determined how the electors shall be appointed on election day: for the most part winner-take-all, excepting Maine and Nebraska, those rascals.

So this theory runs afoul of both the federal Constitution and each individual state's laws.

It does not represent even a plausible possibility for Trump remaining in the White House.

This is the "doctors are saying there's one weird trick to living to 100" of election theories.

You can't just mutter "but the electors clause" and not keep reading the damn document.

While I have your attention, I urge you to embrace the use of the word "disfranchise" rather than the overlong, overmouthy "disenfranchise."

They mean the same thing. No word needs *two* Latinate pre-fixes.