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the second clause of the 12th Amendment: “The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves.”resident, but nothing in the Constitution prevents him from having a Floridian running mate. Also, nothing in the Constitution would prevent a Trump-Rubio ticket from winning Florida.
Practically, that would be a problem for a Trump-Rubio ticket. It’s not an insurmountable problem, but it’s a problem. In that situation, all 255 non-Florida Republican electors would vote Trump-Rubio. Half of the Florida electors would vote Trump for president and then vote blank for vice president. The other half would blank their presidential vote and then vote Rubio for VP. Both men would have 270 votes, and they would be the president and the VP.
What would happen then? The Senate would get to pick the VP from among the two highest vote-getters. So if Republicans controlled the Senate, then the Trump-Rubio ticket wouldn’t need any more than the normal 270 EVs.
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