Pro-Trump Pollster Quotes Stalin In Bizarre Twitter Thread Claiming Pence Can Refuse to Count All Electoral Votes

Come January 6th:

(Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. - Stalin)

"Come January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence will be presented with the sealed certificates containing the ballots of the presidential electors.

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— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 27, 2020

At that moment, the Presidency will be in his hands.

And there is nothing stopping Pence, under the (plenary and unappealable) authority vested in him as President of the Senate, from declining to open and count the certificates from the six disputed states.

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— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 27, 2020

If they are (as more than 70% of Republicans believe) certificates from non-electors appointed via voter fraud, why should he open & count them?"

If the votes of all 7 contested states are registered as zero, President Trump will have 232 votes, Joe Biden will have 222.

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— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 27, 2020

Per the 12th Amendment: "[T]he votes shall then be counted[.] ... The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President[.]"

Reader comments?

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More here - https://t.co/ehnnu84Lgi
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 27, 2020

Quoting Stalin is always a sign that everything is going great. https://t.co/WgRAdOQk4W
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) December 28, 2020

You really are on the wrong side of history if you're quoting Stalin. https://t.co/8nBJ2AF8am
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) December 28, 2020

Trump's favorite pollster, @Rasmussen_Poll, cites former Russian dictator Joseph Stalin as an argument for Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the will of the American people on January 6th. https://t.co/FXAAI7AoqS
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 28, 2020

Conservativism 2020: What would Stalin do? https://t.co/m9fV427I3K
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) December 28, 2020

I see we've reached the “approvingly quoting Stalin" stage of the Trumpist meltdown https://t.co/ow7xB3C6sn
— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) December 28, 2020

Stalin was responsible for executing nearly a million of his own citizens & many millions more died from massacres, forced labor, forced deportation, famine & detention. But sure, we'r'e now at the point in this shameful story when he's the source for the Trumpist coup thinking. https://t.co/Rh2kmNkgFr
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) December 28, 2020

Thanks for letting us know that we don't even have to pretend to take your polling seriously in the future.
— djthomp (@Ruldar) December 28, 2020

🚨CONSUMER ALERT🚨

The legal analysis provided here is inconsistent with the US Constitution, federal law, and VP Pence's Oath of Allegiance.

Note also Rasmussen has earned a reputation for skewing polling data to embellish the popularity of anti-democracy candidates.
— Christopher C. Alberto (@ChrisAlbertoLaw) December 28, 2020

This quote is basically the end of any charade that this poll serves as anything but despot propaganda.
— josh s. (@joshshepperd) December 28, 2020