In an interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Edward Luce says that “Trump is trying to scorch the earth for Biden”. He describes the situation as “absurd theatre”. Although theoretically the American constitution does envisage a situation where the electoral college is unable to decide on a candidate for president and the responsibility of choosing the president devolves on the House of Representatives, where each state has one vote, and because the Republicans control more states than the Democrats the process could lead to Trump being declared President, Edward Luce says this is very unlikely to happen. He says this could be feasible in a situation where only one state is in dispute. In the present circumstances three states need to be flipped and that would require “breath-taking chutzpah”.