Local Republicans dipped their toe into it and, amid widespread backlash, pulled back
His legal challenges to overturn election results have gone nowhere, so President Trump has floated another way to get around his loss: persuade Republican legislatures in swing states to change state law on how to appoint electors and give them to him rather than President-elect Joe Biden.
It’s a legally dubious long shot. Pulling it off would depend on a chain reaction of events that start with local election officials all raising the specter of election chaos, which is exactly what happened in Detroit on Tuesday night before it fizzled
Two Republican election officials in Detroit initially refused to certify the largely Black county’s election results. After blowback, they reversed themselves. Continue reading.