Here s What Will Happen Between Election Day and Inauguration Day – The New York Times

The people have spoken. Now what?

Normally, what happens between Election Day and Inauguration Day is a series of formalities to which few people need to pay attention. But President Trump s refusal to acknowledge that he lost to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., and top Republicans acquiescence to his efforts to subvert the democratic process, have made the arcane procedures by which the will of the people is formalized a matter of public importance.

First, let s address the elephant in the room: It is extremely unlikely that Republicans will be able to overturn the results of the election.

It is possible, yes, to come up with scenarios in which legislators or judges engineer a second Trump term and plunge the nation into a constitutional crisis. But even with a conservative Supreme Court, a Republican-led Senate and Republican-led congressional delegations in most states, election law experts are confident this won t happen.

Here s an overview of what will happen between now and January, how the Trump campaign could try to intervene and why it is so unlikely to succeed.

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