HONESTLY, I’D BE FINE WITH THAT: How Liz Cheney Could Pick The Next President.

Scenario: The Cleveland Convention is as wild as predicted — and the GOP splits with, say, Trump as the nominee and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse running on a third-party line as a mainstream Republican. Partly because of Hillary Clinton’s weakness as the Democratic nominee, no candidate gets the requisite 270 electoral votes and, under the 12th Amendment, the incoming House of Representatives must pick the next president.

This possibility, by the way, was widely discussed when George Wallace (1968) and Ross Perot (1992) ran as independent candidates. And Michael Bloomberg abandoned a third-party race this year, in part, because he didn’t see how he could ever prevail in the House of Representatives.

The 12th Amendment contains two wrinkles that could complicate the selection of the 45th president: Every state gets a single vote and the only candidates are the top three graduates from the Electoral College. As a result of this top-three rule, this will be the rare political scenario under which Paul Ryan doesn’t reluctantly end up as president.

It could happen, but I very much doubt it.