Freedom Caucus Chair Faces Backlash over NC Elector Scheme

Sunday, October 27, 2024

House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris' (R-Md.) colleagues said he needs to pull "his head out of his ass" and take "a Civics 101 class" for suggesting North Carolina legislators consider awarding the state's electors to former President Trump before votes are counted.

Posted by LampLighter at 10:30 AM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

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... Driving the news: Harris, who was tapped to lead the Freedom Caucus last month, made the comments at a local Republican Party dinner in Talbot County, Maryland, on Thursday.

- - - Harris said it "makes a lot of sense" for North Carolina's legislature to convene a joint session to award its 16 Electoral College votes before ballots are counted, according to a clip tweeted by pro-Trump operative Ivan Raiklin.

- - - Harris pointed to disproportionately pro-Trump counties in the Western portion of the state recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Helene.

- - - "You, statistically, can go and say, 'Hey, look, you got disenfranchised in 25 counties, you know what that vote probably would have been,' which would be, if I was in the legislature, enough to go, 'Yeah, we've got to convene the legislature, we can't disenfranchise the voters,'" said Harris.

What they're saying: "Extreme Republican leaders are openly advocating that North Carolina's Electoral votes be given to Donald Trump without an election," said Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee.

- - - "This blood-chilling scheme, suggested by the Chair of the so-called House Freedom Caucus, is anti-American," he added. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-25 07:23 PM

@#4

btw, this coming from a candidate who has yet to win the popular vote for him.

List of United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote
en.wikipedia.org

... There have been five United States presidential elections in which the successful presidential candidate did not receive a plurality of the popular vote, including the 1824 election, which was the first U.S. presidential election where the popular vote was recorded.[1]

In these cases, the successful candidate secured less of the national popular vote than another candidate who received more votes, either a majority, more than half the vote, or a plurality of the vote.[2][3] ...

Who Voted for Hitler? (2021)
www.thenation.com

... In the decisive July 31, 1932, election, Hitler received exactly 37.3 percent of the overall vote across Germany. He fared less well in the cities, averaging 32.3 percent in urban centers with populations over 100,000.

However, in towns with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants he scored better, averaging 41.3 percent of the vote. And in some of the smallest rural communities across Germany, he scored 80 percent or more of the votes, and in several the Nazi vote was 100 percent.

The rural groundswell for Hitler included people of all classes and income levels. And the more it was a question of Protestant communities, the better Hitler did. ...