Steve Schmidt

Enough Is Enough

gregladen | October 18, 2016

Steve Schmidt, bless his pointy Republican head, makes a very important point here. And to underscore the point, let me ask you this: How do we go from having an "election" to having a "president elect"? The process is actually a bit subtle and somewhat more complicated than one might think. Election day happens, but there is no "president elect" in any official, constitutional, way, for a very long time thereafter. Though this can vary, the first possible date that we will have a "president elect" in the current election cycle is on January 6th, 2017. Not before. Of course, what really…

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