The writer is another idiot who doesn’t understand what triggers a contingent election.
If, for example, the Nebraska legislature ensured that their electoral college votes were in dispute, and the courts had not decided the matter by 6 January, and no one had reached the threshold of 270, that state of affairs would automatically trigger a contingent election. In a contingent election, another abstruse mechanism of the US electoral system, each state delegation, whether it’s California or Wyoming, gets a single vote, which means that the Republicans would always win.
The amount needed to win is not fixed at 270. It’s a majority of the electoral votes counted by Congress.
It’s nonsense like this that made me start this thread