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In 2024 , there is very much a way for Donald Trump to lose the popular vote, lose the electoral college , lose all his legal cases and still end up president of the United States in an entirely legal manner.
A contingent election is the process put in place to deal with the eventuality in which no presidential candidate reaches the threshold of 270 votes.
The electoral college is an arcane system, unworthy of a 21st-century country.
Stephen Marche : A contingent election would be, in effect, the last election.
The rot is advancing faster than anybody could have imagined, he says.
The real danger of 2024 isn’t even the possibility of a Trump presidency, it’s that the electoral system, in its arcane decrepitude, will produce an outcome that won't be credible to anybody.
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