# What will happen on 1/6/25? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [June 23, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232 "2024-06-23T17:41:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/1 "2024-06-23T17:41:37Z")
Bearing in mind this will be the newly elected Congress My guess is that a Democratic Representative & a Democratic Senator will object to the first slate of electoral votes for Trump for symbolic reasons and not thinking it really has a chance to go anywhere. The Congresscritters will retire to their respective Houses and grandstand for two hours and then vote along party lines. Remembering Kamala Harris is still Vice-President at the time she can cast the tie-breaking vote if necessary, however I do not think there will be 218 D representatives AND 50 D senators so it probably will not go anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/2 "2024-06-23T17:50:01Z")
You could drive a truck through the unspoken assumption in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/3 "2024-06-23T19:16:41Z")
Congress rewrote the Electoral Count Act a couple of years ago. It now takes one-fifth of each chamber objecting to electors in writing in order for the objection to be considered. Objections may only be made on certain specific grounds. And the VP has no tie-breaking vote and her role is strictly ministerial. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/4 "2024-06-23T19:28:13Z")
President Biden wins the election, and the Dms win the House and the Senate. Vocal protests from the MAGA Right ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/5 "2024-06-23T19:31:33Z")
Donald Trump will send word from prison that the election was rigged and that he is innocent. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/6 "2024-06-23T19:34:33Z")
If Biden wins there will be another attempt at 1/6/21 but it will be a whimper and capitol police will be ready for it so it will never get started. If Trump wins there will be marches in big cities (I was in the one in NY in 2016…lots of fun…just happened to be there). Then they will go home, grumble and post to message boards (which I did too). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/7 "2024-06-23T19:39:03Z")
Hopefully, I’ll be skiing. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/8 "2024-06-23T22:39:44Z")
Then I think enough Dems in both Houses will object since as an insurrectionist Trump is ineligible to be elected President and so electoral votes for him are not “regularly given”. The Vice-President cannot rule it out of order under the new rules so I assume they retire to their Houses to showboat errrrr… debate. It may not hold up but it gives them time to make one last speech on the issue and would be a strong symbolic statement. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/9 "2024-06-23T22:41:05Z")
I plan to be in a blue part of a blue state. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/10 "2024-06-24T05:22:34Z")
The America-hating fuckstick will not be in a position to hold a rally at the Mall in the way he was in 2021, so hopefully there won’t be a similar set of events. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/11 "2024-06-24T13:45:06Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Then I think enough Dems in both Houses will object since as an insurrectionist Trump is ineligible to be elected President and so electoral votes for him are not “regularly given”. The Vice-President cannot rule it out of order under the new rules so I assume they retire to their Houses to showboat errrrr… debate. It may not hold up but it gives them time to make one last speech on the issue and would be a strong symbolic statement. Ah, I think I see your confusion – it’s _Republicans_ who play petty games with our democracy in order to make useless points. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/12 "2024-06-24T13:47:40Z")
There are to many ways this election can work out to make predictions about this. 1/6 will not be a significant date. If there’s trouble it will have occurred already, ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/13 "2024-06-25T16:01:56Z")
I didn’t think that was a special presidential rally? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/14 "2024-06-25T16:09:25Z")
I don’t think anything violent will happen on Jan-6. The Trumpers won’t do another attack because the Capitol will be absolutely ringed by security as a fortress. Nothing will get past. They won’t even try. The Democrats will protest (peacefully) in mass crowds if Trump were the winner, but not do anything violent. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/15 "2024-06-25T16:35:54Z")
But will anybody do anything violent to them? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/16 "2024-06-25T17:05:52Z")
Besides the capitol police, National Guard, and other branches of the military? Probably not. They’ll be too busy celebrating. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/17 "2024-06-25T17:55:40Z")
Could be part of the _way_ they celebrate. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/18 "2024-06-25T18:35:50Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > You could drive a truck through the unspoken assumption in the OP. What’s that? The possibility that, while Biden wins the Presidential race, there are 218 Republicans elected to the House and 51 to the Senate, so the possibility of a repeat of 1876 can happen, in which case, in effect, the President could be elected by two people - Senators Collins and Murkowski? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/19 "2024-06-25T19:12:41Z")
The OP assumed a Trump electoral win and Democrats objecting to the count. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/20 "2024-06-25T19:19:55Z")
No. I did not. I assumed that Trump gets at least one electoral vote. Even if he doesn’t win, the requisite number of Dems will object to that EV for symbolic reasons and take 2 hours each to make their speeches. Then the EVs are upheld. It’s about politicians taking an opportunity to grandstand. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232.md?page=2)