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    11 months ago

    Every day the mask trying to hide the fact that No Labels are an anti-democracy group who don’t believe the American people should be empowered to choose their government and their whole reason for existing is to disrupt the democratic process to get a Republican in the White House slips a little more

    Former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, a co-founder of No Labels, expanded on the group’s view of this potential scenario in an interview with NBC News on Thursday, suggesting the No Labels ticket could “cut a deal” with one of the major parties’ tickets.

    Gee, I wonder which of the major parties former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Davis is thinking of a cutting a deal with…

    Davis also said that the group is looking at another potential, if far-fetched, outcome: A contingent election in which the president is selected by the U.S. House.

    In the event that an effort to swing unbound electors fails and no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes, the 12th Amendment of the Constitution stipulates that each state’s House delegation votes for one of the presidential candidates. In order to secure the presidency, one of the presidential candidates must receive the support of 26 state delegations. The Senate would select the vice president.

    Gee, I wonder which party is almost guaranteed to have a majority in more state delegations if every state is counted the same regardless of population.

    When asked if No Labels has looked at state delegations that could potentially side with the No Labels ticket in a contingent election, Davis responded, “Of course. Of course. Of course. We’ve mapped all this out.”

    He noted, as an example, that a state like Montana, which has one House member, could “hold out” on its initial support of a ticket.

    Gee, I wonder who it benefits to give Montana more power to decide the next president or stack the cabinet than California or New York has.