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Senior Fellow at the @BrookingsInst. Editor in Chief of @lawfareblog. Cohost of @inlieuoffunshow. I will block you for any reason or none at all.

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    1. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 19 Nov 2020

      To everyone flipping out on Twitter right now. Stop. Breath. And let’s go over what’s going to happen. Tomorrow, the electoral result in Georgia will be certified. Monday, the results in Michigan and Pennsylvania will be certified.

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    2. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 19 Nov 2020

      Arizona will follow in a week. Nevada and Wisconsin will certify on December 1. The electors will cast their votes on December 14. Congress will count those votes on January 6. That is what’s going to happen. All the rest is antidemocratic noise.

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    3. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 19 Nov 2020

      The reason you are hearing nothing but calm seriousness from the president-elect and his team is that they know this.

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      Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 19 Nov 2020

      The antidemocratic noise is a very serious problem. But it it will not prevent Biden from becoming president.

      5:03 PM - 19 Nov 2020
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        2. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 19 Nov 2020

          I promise.

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        3. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 19 Nov 2020

          There are very few perfect designs for governance, but the Constitution’s approach to ensuring a president cannot remain in power in the face of the expressed will of the electorate is awesome in its automaticity and resistance to presidential interference.

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        4. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 19 Nov 2020

          There are many problems with our presidential election system. It’s deftness in getting rid of a president who lost is not one of them. He is the most powerful man in the world. He can literally destroy the world with a few words. But he is helpless to remain in power.

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        5. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 19 Nov 2020

          Just a little constitutional civics to brighten your Thursday.

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        6. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 19 Nov 2020

          That’s all I got.

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        2. Tom Andre‏ @ThomasJAndre 19 Nov 2020
          Replying to @benjaminwittes

          Agreed - but that's not what I worry about. I worry about the lack of loud Democratic pushback. I know it is noise, but I also know that enough noise, sustained long enough, does change people over time. Even though it's awful that we have to, we MUST produce a counter narrative.

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        3. chumleighofang‏ @chumleighofang 19 Nov 2020
          Replying to @ThomasJAndre @benjaminwittes

          What you mean is that Democrats need to learn how to control the narrative. That's what trump and the republicans have done so well. But then, the latter have the ear of the media because the media loves "conflict," which is what sells.

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        2. Djinn Djinn ((( 🐾))) GROWLLL! SHRED! SHRED! SHRED!‏ @chemoelectric 19 Nov 2020
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          Marines guards should be steeling themselves to the notion of dragging an ex-"president" out of the White House with minimum fuss. What to say to him, should it really become necessary. "We can do this with you walking or you cuffed and carried, but it will be done."

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        3. Leonard Grossman‏ @modemjunkie 19 Nov 2020
          Replying to @chemoelectric @benjaminwittes

          No need. Just leave him there in the dark and cold while Biden runs the country.

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        1. TheDorMouse‏ @DorMouseSez 19 Nov 2020
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          That's great, but I personally know people who are going over the ledge with Trump and they will not be convinced otherwise. These are people who were not Trump Cultists. This is changing the electorate. Its a bfd.

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