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Today, Raskin is weary of thinking and talking about Trump. вЂњIf Mike Pence had gone along with it, it certainly would have happened.вЂќ вЂA religious and political cultвЂ™ вЂњWe were very close to all of that happening,вЂќ Raskin said. Would he simply pass along the results of the Electoral College, as his predecessors had all done? Or would he toss out the electoral votes of a few battleground states Trump had lost, throwing the election to the House? 6, the fate of American democracy hinged on how Vice President Mike Pence understood his constitutional role. Now, if RaskinвЂ™s worst fears were realized and Trump engineered a contingent election in the House, President-elect Joe Biden would lose. Another of RaskinвЂ™s Iowa candidates, Rita Hart, lost by just six votes. now had a 27-22 majority of state delegations even though Democrats still controlled the House as a whole. They flipped the Iowa delegation after unseating Representative Abby Finkenauer, meaning the G.O.P. 3, 2020, Republicans knocked off nearly a dozen House Democrats. вЂњI had to engage in a mini-constitutional seminar with everybody we were asking for money,вЂќ Raskin said. Then, he steered money toward them through a group he named вЂњTwelfth Amendment Defenders Fund.вЂќД«ack then, educating donors about such a hypothetical scenario proved to be quite an endeavor. First, he identified nearly two dozen Democratic candidates who would be crucial to either defending or flipping House delegations. So Raskin sought to change the balance of power via the upcoming election. But if Democrats could flip at least one Republican-held delegation, they would deny the G.O.P. That put Democrats at a disadvantage, because before the 2020 election, Republicans controlled 26 states to DemocratsвЂ™ 22 (two others were tied).

All the representatives from each state vote on that stateвЂ™s choice for president, and then each state casts one vote. Instead of a simple majority of House lawmakers, a majority of House delegations picks the winner. Under the 12th Amendment, if no candidate musters a majority of the Electoral College to Congress on the appointed day, the House must immediately vote to choose the new president. 6 gambit, Raskin found it eerily similar to his own thinking. When investigators later unearthed a proposed six-step plan by John Eastman, a fringe conservative scholar who advised Trump on his Jan. вЂњI fault myself for not having taken seriously the possibility of the outdoors violence entering into the chamber.вЂќ вЂњEverything he ended up doing we essentially predicted, other than unleashing the violent insurrection against us,вЂќ Raskin said. Raskin summed up his findings a few months later in a memo to PelosiвЂ™s leadership team. вЂњI just figured out what they would do if they wanted to win.вЂќ вЂњWe all had become great students of Donald Trump and his psyche,вЂќ Raskin recalled. Over the next few months, he tried to piece together the Trump teamвЂ™s likely strategy. So when Pelosi asked him to game out what Trump might do in November, Raskin undertook the task with characteristic vigor.

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She confided in Raskin, who had long been obsessed with the Electoral College system, which he thought was full of вЂњbooby trapsвЂќ that someone like Trump could exploit. Trump pressured Vice President Mike PenceВ to go along with a plan to overturn his loss even after he was told it was illegal, according to testimony laid out by the panel during the third hearing.

Trump ignored aides and advisersВ in declaring victory prematurelyВ and relentlessly pressing claims of fraud he was told were wrong.

Day Two: In its second hearing, the committee showed how Mr.

Trump, the Proud Boys and a Capitol Police officer.

Day One: During the first hearing, the panel presented a gripping storyВ with a sprawling cast of characters, but only three main players: Mr.

Making a Case Against Trump: The committee appears to be laying out a road mapВ for prosecutors to indict former President Donald J.

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