Donald Trump's six-hour Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night, filled with "anger, vitriol and racist threats," began almost immediately with the "joke heard around the world"—an attack calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean"—and ended with 80 minutes of Dona...
  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    101·
    18 days ago

    ““A tie in the Electoral College will then require a vote in the House of Representatives, where the GOP, led by Speaker Johnson, has a (thin) majority…””

    Except that the new Congress is sworn in on 1/2.

    Right now the Republican majority is 220 to 212 with 3 vacancies.

    *Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) resigned effective 04/25/2024. b

    *Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) died 07/19/2024.

    *Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) died 08/21/2024.

    So, if the Democrats maintain those 2 vacancies, that makes it 220 to 214.

    All of the seats are up for re-election.

    If just 4 seats flip, that makes it 218 to 216 Democrats.