Here’s the scary way Trump could win without the electoral or popular vote

In a ‘contingent election’, he could lose the popular vote, electoral college and all his legal cases and still end up the legal US president, writes Stephen Marche

Former President Donald Trump. There have been two contingent elections in American history.

In an ordinary time, under ordinary political conditions, the idea of another Trump presidency would be strictly the stuff of nightmares.

The former president is facing 40 criminal charges for his mishandling of classified documents, and will have to interrupt his campaign next summer to defend himself in court. Those charges are apart from the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records he faces in New York.