Here’s how the House could end up picking the next US president

[Jacob Siegal]

• Nancy Pelosi is urging Democrats to focus on winning seats in the House of Representatives as there is a chance that they could end up deciding the 2020 presidential election.
• If neither candidate wins the Electoral College vote, each House delegation gets one vote to decide the president, and Republicans currently control 26 state delegations.
• “We must achieve that majority of delegations or keep the Republicans from doing so," Pelosi wrote.

It is entirely possible, if not relatively likely, that we will not know who the next President of the United States is by the end of the night on November 3rd. Due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, record numbers of Americans are expected to vote by mail. Some states accept mail-in ballots after election day, as long as they are postmarked before polls close. Other states are forbidden from processing mail ballots until Election Day. But there's a chance that even once all of the ballots have been counted, we still won't know who will occupy the Oval Office in 2021.

According to Politico, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been rallying fellow Democrats to expand their lead in the House of Representatives as there is a very real chance that the House could end up deciding the 2020 presidential election if neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden wins a majority of the votes in the Electoral College.

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