What if there is a 259-269 electoral tie?
From what I see, the House would elect the President and the Senate would pick the VP, but each state only gets one vote. As it stands now, the House Republicans control 26 states in the House but that could well change. If it ends in a tie, they would keep voting until there was a winner.
If the House can't pick a winner by inauguration day, then the Senate VP pick becomes President until the House is finally able to pick someone.
Talk about divided government, it may be that "we haven't seen nothing yet"! And I think the market could do a swan dive if this came to be.
