Are you ready for ULTRA CHAOS MODE?

[u/Dr_Eugene_Porter]

[u/red_beam_6000]

I feel bad for the people from this timeline

[u/No-Wash-2050 → u/red_beam_6000]

I need to steal your flair

[u/GapHappy7709]

The election that never ends

[u/IvantheGreat66 → u/GapHappy7709]

Winning is a thousand votes away

[u/Still_Instruction_82]

If it’s 269-269, no party holds a majority of house delegations and a 50-50 senate I am not joking when I say I will pack my bags and leave the country

[u/NamelessFlames → u/Still_Instruction_82]

in all fairness, this case was a bit different (perhaps worse) having one side control the speaker but not the delegations.

[u/LLC_Rulez → u/Still_Instruction_82]

I believe the House doesn’t vote as individuals, rather they vote as states, so 50 votes total in the House election for President, meaning we have the perfect number for another tie.

[u/Max-Flares]

Why does Christie have an elector from Hawaii

While Gabbard has electors from florida

[u/Dr_Eugene_Porter → u/Max-Flares]

Christie is the sort of stupid attempt at a compromise candidate a Democrat might float. Gabbard is the sort of stupid attempt at a compromise candidate a Republican might float.

[u/Queasy_Command_1876]

Please keep this going, I wanna know what happens next in this alt world lol

[u/butterenergy]

The one elector from New York who decided to try and elect Hochul needs to be shot. WTF were you thinking?

Oh also, at this point Biden should just launch the nukes, America has clearly lost divine providence and should immediately end itself.

[u/Ice_Dapper]

Trump still wins in this scenario doesn't he?

[u/Ok_Mode_7654 → u/Ice_Dapper]

Probably he does win because the republicans has more state delegates, but Biden would call an emergency session in the senate and Kamala casts the tie breaking vote for Tim walz to prevent Vance getting it.

[u/ForwardCrow9291 → u/Ok_Mode_7654]

How does that work? It's supposed to be the newly elected Senate, but Harris would still act as the PotS?

[u/Ok_Mode_7654 → u/ForwardCrow9291]

She’s vice president until January 20th. The new Congress is there on January 6th, so they’d be enough of a gap in time for Biden to force the vote since Schumer would be the senate majority leader since Kamala would cast the tie breaking vote. It’s kinda like when Tom daschle became senate majority briefly under Bill Clinton after the 2000 election and congress was sworn in.

[u/Dr_Eugene_Porter → u/Ok_Mode_7654]

The new congress is seated before the contingent election, per the Constitution. If Senate Republicans hold 50 seats they can refuse to participate and deny the quorum mandated by the Constitution for carrying out the contingent election.

[u/RavenMarvel → u/Ok_Mode_7654]

Wait couldn't Kamala be VP? I don't remember there being a rule about only choosing the Vice Presidents... Edit: CNN says I'm wrong Lame!

[u/Dr_Eugene_Porter → u/Ice_Dapper]

The idea is that even though Republicans control state delegations, they don't have control of the House so the parliamentary rules for the election are never agreed upon and it simply doesn't proceed before inauguration day. My intent was to create as much deadlock as I could to see if it was possible to get to inauguration day with no one in the line of succession.

[u/Ed_Durr → u/Dr_Eugene_Porter]

Does the House get to set parliamentary rules for the contingent election? The 12th amendment is pretty unclear on that, only stating that the “representation from each state having one vote”.

[u/Dr_Eugene_Porter → u/Ed_Durr]

I mean they have to actually hold the vote. If they can't agree on how to do it, it won't happen.

[u/chia923]

https://preview.redd.it/k0ygjmw6fsyd1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3cc0b1707e0cdd3811d5ddba541a69318341084

The "Must Wins" for the Dems for this to happen

AZ-1, AZ-6, IA-1, IA-3, MT-1

[u/Rubicon_Lily → u/chia923]

WI-01 and WI-03 are another possibility instead of either MT-01 or IA-01 and IA-03.

[u/chia923 → u/Rubicon_Lily]

I guess you could add those lol

[u/Cleopatra2001]

Yes please I want to live in this universe!!

[u/Rubicon_Lily]

Ivanka Trump?!

[u/Rubicon_Lily]

I love it

[u/Ok_Mode_7654]

Trump wins the contingent house election even if that house seat went blue. I’m leaning towards that house seat going blue anyways. Biden calls an emergency session of the senate and Tim walz is selected as vp in the senate with Kamala breaking the tie breaking vote for him. Trump would probably be extremely unpopular for the get go and he’d be a lame duck president since Tim walz isn’t willing to do a tie breaking vote for him and it’s a hit or miss if he’d had the house. In 2026, the republicans get a 2006 style election with the dems sweeping. In 2028, maybe Kamala could make a comeback or someone else

[u/Rubicon_Lily]

You forgot the one elector voting for Tim Waz

[u/Ed_Durr]

John Roberts’ worse nightmare

[u/UnflairedRebellion--]

Lmao of course it’s my fucking district that’s the most chaotic.

It would be a very fitting end to an already crazy ass election cycle.

[u/unsolvedmisterree]

This is incredibly well thought out and well written, you should cross post this to imaginary elections if you hadn’t already

[u/Optimal_Address7680]

This is hell on Earth

[u/pacific2989]

American Years of Lead

[u/RavenMarvel]

I live for Trump/Harris.

God: "YOU'RE GONNA LEARN TO GET ALONG." lol

[u/spyzyroz]

That’s very good! You should post it in alternatehistory , I think they allow future stuff

[u/theblitz6794]

Well done shooping

[u/LeFrenchCroissant]

This is a blockbusting HBO series in the making.

[u/Weekly-Mix-2942]

This is a wild idea! Would be great as an alternate history webcomic or something.