Will the 2028 election plunge the U.S. into a political nail-biter, with no candidate crossing the 270-vote threshold? In that case, we’d face a rare, high-stakes scenario: the U.S. House of Representatives would decide the President from the top three Electoral College contenders, with each state casting a single vote. Meanwhile, the Senate would pick the Vice President from the top two.

But what if the electoral landscape shifts? If the Electoral College is reformed, dissolved, or if new states are admitted by 2028, altering the vote count needed to win outright, this question will resolve based on whether the final election system produces a result where no candidate secures a majority of the electors, however those electors are defined at the time. Will Congress have to intervene, or will a candidate pull ahead in this potential game-changer of an election?