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Sort of. There's some electoral college fuckery due to the 12th amendment. Votes for president and vice president are counted separately and electors can't vote for two people from their own state.
So let's say I'm an elector. The year is 2000. Bush and Cheney are on the ticket, both with Texas residency. They won with 271 total electoral votes. However, me and the other Texas folks can only vote for one of them, knocking Cheney back 32 electoral votes. The House would then need to vote on who the VP would be.
This almost happened. However, Cheney changed his residency and moved back to Wyoming and put his Texas house up for sale. So that didn't come up.
Most of the time it wouldn't matter, but in a close race it could. But with the Republican house (unless more leave before then) I don't think that's much of a worry for them. More concerning is the rate at which Trump is farting himself awake at his trial.
Trump getting elected and Harris ending up as his VP in a fluke would surely cause his cheeseburger stuffed heart to finally give out, resulting in the most hilarious outcome of the election imaginable.
Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me.
Sure thing! There's a lot of confusion about it and if I can help alleviate it then I consider it a privilege to do so.