# What will happen on 1/6/25?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/21 "2024-06-25T19:22:57Z")

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Your scenario is pure fantasy. Assuming Biden wins the Ds will follow boringly normal procedure and get the EVs approved quickly and without any grandstanding.

I am unaware of anyone who has credibly suggested anything out of the norm would take place.

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**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/22 "2024-06-25T19:23:14Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> 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.

I predict this will be 100% wrong. When Biden wins, the Dems will go out of their way to ensure the process runs as smoothly as it did every election through 2016 – and that any shenanigans by the GOP are seen as idiotic grandstanding by whiny losers.

ETA: What @Kolak_of_Twilo said.

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**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/23 "2024-06-25T19:29:33Z")

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Thirded. It’s ridiculous to think that 20 Democratic Senators and 88 House Democrats are going to sign onto a pointless “symbolic” objection. That’s not to say there wouldn’t be an objection to a genuine move by Republicans to subvert a state’s election results.

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**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, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-1-6-25/1003232/24 "2024-06-25T19:30:07Z")

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> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#):
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> Assuming Biden wins the Ds will follow boringly normal procedure and get the EVs approved quickly and without any grandstanding.

Yep. Dems know their voters just want to return to “normal” governance. The “payback” fetish is a GOP kink.

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