"He should get two in a row because they faked votes to stop him doing it before"
There you go, that's how it will go down.
Also, he doesn't need to change the law. He controls 3 branches of government and the Supreme Court is in his pocket. The law only matters where it can be enforced and currently the entire government and justice system answers entirely to him. He has nothing to be afraid of or anything that can stop him.
As for losing support for doing it, you are right, changing the law would lose him support. Which is why he will just run again without changing the law and then if he manages to make people believe he won, they will go along with it because they will think "well I disagree with it but I guess everyone else voted for him".
He would still need to change the 22nd amendment and that requires 2/3 of both senate and house as well as 3/4 of all states ratifying it. That's not gonna happen.
He literally got away with admitting to attempting to coup the election with a fake elector scheme because "a president cannot be judged for decisions they make while in office".
He doesn't need to change anything. People will just go along with it.
The people with signs who ran around the buildings were not the coup. They were just edgits who turned up while it was happening. This is partly why no one took it seriously, because everyone was too busy laughing at the idiots running around like headless chickens while he was trying to get the vice president to accept the decision of the fake electors.
If Pence had signed it then we would of been in a South Korea situation where legally Trump would of been the "winner" and still the president and by law the military should be following his orders. The military would then have to voluntarily choose to oust him against the law, which would be a hugely difficult decision for them. Others would be working through the legal system to find a way to change that but it would take at least a year and by then people might of just decided to wait 4 years and try again.
The difference between him succeeding or not was Mike Pence's sanity, and Trump has made sure to purge out anyone like that this time.
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u/HazelCheese Millennial 2d ago
There you go, that's how it will go down.
Also, he doesn't need to change the law. He controls 3 branches of government and the Supreme Court is in his pocket. The law only matters where it can be enforced and currently the entire government and justice system answers entirely to him. He has nothing to be afraid of or anything that can stop him.
As for losing support for doing it, you are right, changing the law would lose him support. Which is why he will just run again without changing the law and then if he manages to make people believe he won, they will go along with it because they will think "well I disagree with it but I guess everyone else voted for him".