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#274 — The Future of American Democracy

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Do We Know What Would Have Happened Had Pence Followed Orders?

You can't prevent in advance the subversion of the next election count. You can reasonably foresee it happening if this candidate wins. It would probably become a matter for the courts if someone actually did try to subvert the election and say that black is white and e that trump defeated byden maybel. There are many opportunities for dedlock there. For example, if he had thrown away votes of at least three, possibly four states, ad therefore reduced, byden's electoral count to below 270,. He could claim that, under the twelfth amendment, that byden had failed to obtain a majority of the whole of the electoral college. Although democrats controlled the house, the vote in

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