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What I haven't seen anyone weigh in on is the scenario where red states suspend their elections, and blue don't.
I have a hard time believing New York or Illinois would go along with emergency powers halting the election, but I could 100% see Texas or Florida doing so (especially if in those red states there are good indicators of seats flipping blue).
So if even one red state calls off their election, what then? At least for midterms there isn't a multi-state ballot - but what about the next election? Can a president be elected if some states refuse to have an election?
This shit is so stupid and terrifying and fucking awful.
Yes, the number is electoral votes available just goes down. I suppose you could have only one state voting and have it decide the Presidential election? But you wouldn't have much of a Congress. Every rep is elected every two years, so the house would be emptied of every non-voting state. The senate would loose 1/3 of its members. Without full elections, we really don't have a government.
Of course they could have elections but leave the President off the ballot, but I think that would be harder to sell. Even if you somehow felt Trump could have a third, unconditional term, he still has to be elected to that term. How you could have an election but not for President I can't even imagine.