If Sanders, Trump and Bloomberg win states

[buritobr]

Let's consider the scenario of a 3 candidate race: Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg. It's not impossible. Consider that the three candidates win states and nobody reaches 270 EVs.
The Congress decides. But which one? The old one or the new one? If it is the old one, Trump wins, because R is the majority. But if it is the new one...

[PeteB]

The 12th Amendment clarifies that it must happen after the electors have been formally counted, so it would definitely be the new congress.  That means a chance of a Democratic VP, but unless Bloomberg has an army of 100+ indy House candidates in the waiting, Republicans are still nearly certain to control 26 state delegations, even in a situation where Democrats narrowly won the House majority.

That could mean Trump as President and Warren as VP - let the fun times roll.

Of course in reality, that would not happen. Bloomberg could lobby both GOP and Dem moderates so anything is possible! Not to mention that for all this to transpire, a lot of things have to go right (or wrong ).

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What the hell state would Bloomberg win?

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What the hell state would Bloomberg win?

[RR1997]

Bloomberg is not going to win any states and would only get 2%-8% of the vote.

Third party candidates don't do good when both major party candidates suck. They only do good when both major party candidates are great, and 1992 proved this. Clinton sand Bush were both great, so of course a massive HP like Perot did wonderfully.