John Yoo: Trump and Biden could face dramatic post-election battle — here’s what might happen
Election Day could be just the start of a new phase in a prolonged fight for control of the White House
By John Yoo | Fox News
Election Day is Nov. 3. But if the vote is close, we might not know who wins control of the White House until December or even January. Multiple, complex scenarios could play out before either Donald Trump or Joe Biden takes the oath of office Jan. 20.
Both President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Biden would be wise to start studying George W. Bush’s victory in the 2000 Florida recount. They’ll need to learn how to wage a post-election battle if uncertainty and chaos engulf the Nov. 3 election.
As in 2000, the outcome of the presidential election this year could remain undecided well past Election Day. In Florida two decades ago the uncertainty arose because of the closeness of the election and the inconsistent standards used by different counties to run a recount. Bush ultimately won Florida by a razor-thin margin of 537 votes.
Only the intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida courts from ordering prolonged and widespread recounts that threatened to prevent the state from casting any electoral votes at all.
Neither Bush nor the Democratic nominee — then-Vice President Al Gore — could win a majority of the Electoral College without Florida. If Florida had failed to award its electoral votes at all, no one would have prevailed in the Electoral College.
Two decades later, the presidential election this year could make Florida look like spring training compared to the World Series.
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