Erick Erickson’s Cockamamie Scheme To Elect Rick Perry President With 38 Electoral Votes https://t.co/gnlKsn4dHK

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 21, 2016

But you see what Erickson & Co. are getting at here. They think Perry “would win Texas and at least obstruct Trump.” He’d get Texas’s 38 electoral votes and deny Trump (and Hillary Clinton, presumably) the 270 votes necessary to win the presidency outright. At that point, the race goes to the House of Representatives, with each state’s congressional delegation getting one vote. According to the Twelfth Amendment, the House would choose from the top three electoral vote getters. So it’s important that the third-party candidate win one state at least. Erickson thinks Perry would win Texas and House Republicans would then automatically make him president.