... Hawley's argument was based on what happened in the 1876 election between Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden and former Republican President Rutherford Hayes. In that race, three states didn't certify their electors, Baier explained. "So Congress was left to come up with this system, this commission that eventually got to a negotiated grand bargain, but now all of the states have certified their elections as of December 14th," Baier said. "So it doesn't by constitutional ways open a door to Congress to overturn that, does it?"...

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