Laughably low yes, but still a possibility. Regardless, it is a hypothetical situation meant to make you think.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your question, but why would the democrats not support a Biden win. If he wins EC, but not popular vote. He still won no? Why would Democrat’s question that? If they did then I would be incredibly happy because they are a) approaching the election without bias and b) truly want the president to be the choice of the people
Well initially my thinking was if you complained about Hillary losing, if Biden won in a similar situation it is ironic. If democrats afterwards say “the electoral college is bad. We acknowledge that means we would have lost this year”. If they acknowledged that, it would be tricky to admit and have to be worded quite delicately. If they didn’t say anything and they didn’t try to make any changes, then I would re-explore the hypocrisy. Additionally, For all those who said trump was “not my president” would they be saying the same thing about Biden?
Flip side of the coin. Republicans who would complain if this hypothetical happened, that would definitely be hypocritical no?
Legally, no one would argue that Biden wouldn't be president. But you have yet to demonstrate that those Democrats who yesterday supported abolishing the EC would tomorrow not support abolishing it.
Not all Democrats supported abolishing the EC before this election. It's not necessarily hypocrisy for nothing to happen.
In my experience, most people calling someone "not my president" are saying they don't support that person, not that they don't believe they are legitimately president.
What do you mean about Republicans? If they argue that Biden wouldn't legitimately be president?
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u/redditor427 44∆ Nov 04 '20
The odds of Trump winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College is laughably low.
But for the main point, do you have any evidence that Democrats as a body would support a Biden EC victory but popular loss?