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The meltdown over former President Donald Trump’s “little secret” continued with a racially charged, fearmongering conspiracy theory on plans to “steal an election.”



(Video: Democracy Now!)

After four years of griping over conservatives voicing their concerns about election integrity, and despite the lengthy track record of leftists pushing back on election outcomes, talking heads have preemptively launched a salvo suggesting Trump intended to subvert the Constitution, by acting within its framework.

Such was the case from Democracy Now! justice correspondent Elie Mystal as he pushed a narrative that the Twelfth Amendment had been instituted to protect slavery, and could now be used by Republicans to subvert “democracy” should Vice President Kamala Harris win the popular vote, but not the Electoral College.

“Yeah, so, it’s really the 12th Amendment,” claimed Mystal after he spoke to a specific scenario where neither Trump nor Harris cleared the 270 vote threshold to win the presidency.

“But that’s not the secret. The secret is that if you decrease the number of electors appointed — right? — the math is simple that the majority of electoral votes that you need also goes down. So, in a very simple case where we think it is — you need 270 electoral votes to win, if there are 538 total electors. But if you take that number down to say, 528 electors, well, then, all of a sudden, you only need 264 electoral votes to win, right?” he laid out. “And you can do that, you can decrease the number of electors appointed, if you prevent, delay, obfuscate the ability of any particular state to certify its elections and send electors to Congress by the statutorily required deadline of December 11th.”

“And so, Amy, I think that’s where this whole game is going to be played by Trump and [House Speaker Mike] Johnson. They’re going to try to prevent states from submitting — states that Harris wins from submitting valid slates of electors by the December 11th deadline. And then, once we get to that deadline, Mike Johnson, as speaker of the House, and Republicans in control of the House, will simply call the process over and say any electors not appointed by the statutory deadline of December 11th simply don’t count,” Mystal alleged. “And that is a way for Trump to steal an election that he loses.”

The claim followed an unexplained remark from Trump during his rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden where he’d teased a “little secret” that he wouldn’t disclose until after the election that meant “we’re gonna do really well with the House…”

After Mystal contended the Electoral College was an “anachronistic system” and “one of those poison pills the enslavers put into the original Constitution in hope that it would make it very difficult for slavery to ever be outlawed in this nation,” users on social media tore into the take as the correspondent growled at “‘constitutional republic’ crap.”

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