What Trump doesn’t understand about Electoral Count Act reform

Following months of bipartisan negotiations, lawmakers agreed on an important overhaul of the Electoral Count Act that will strengthen the system against future attacks and possible mischief. The challenge was figuring out how to pass it.

This week, Congress is expected to approve a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package, and to the relief of reformers, the Electoral Count Act overhaul will be included in the legislation. It might pass the Senate as early as today.

Donald Trump, oddly enough, sees this as some kind of proof that some of his outlandish post-defeat claims were right.

In a trio of missives by way of his social media platform, the former president complained bitterly about what reality-based observers said about then-Vice President Mike Pence's legal authority. “They said the Vice President has ‘absolutely no choice,’ it was carved in ‘steel,’” Trump wrote, “but if he has no choice, why are they changing the law saying he has no choice?” He added: