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Democrats prayed for such an occurrence in 2016 to no avail. Why do you believe the results will be different this time?


Clinton conceded the election to Trump the day after the election.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/hillary-clin...


That doesn't mean anything legally either. It's not like you give up your electors when you concede. It's just part of losing gracefully. Technically the only thing that matters is what the electors decide to do.


Well... there is such a thing in law as estoppel. It's primarily used in a civil context; I'm not sure a situation has ever come up for it to be tested in election law.


Georgia and Pennsylvania don't have laws preventing faithless electors from voting against their state's winning candidate.

It's looking like the lead will be big enough that even in the (very) small chance things go wrong it won't matter.


I severely doubt that someone would non-anonymously choose to be the single person that gave away the election to their declared opponent, weeks after being a loyal partisan.


If there's one thing I don't doubt, it's people's dedication to a president they believe is the only person fighting the 'deep state' and other things along those lines. I can easily see it spun (or justified) as "defending democracy" rather than upending it.


Then why didn't it happen with faithless electors in 2016?



Importantly, though:

"... only two... defected from the winner."


>small chance things go wrong

for some definition of wrong




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