Donald Trump’s Electoral College Win and the Enormous Hurdles for Reversal

Suprun urged his fellow electors to reject Trump and come to an agreement on a suitable Republican to replace him, such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

If states don’t enact new laws to ensure that only USA citizens vote, Farah wrote, the electoral votes from those states “should not count because they are unconstitutional”.

As of Tuesday morning, Clinton leads Trump 65,467,571 to 62,813,613, according to voter data from the Cook Political Report – a margin of 2,653,958 votes.

Our delegates to the Electoral College have some soul-searching to do.

Since the Electoral College was found in 1787, just 157 people have been faithless electors. And Suprun is beyond uncomfortable about the Trump business entanglements that should make us all beyond uncomfortable.

This year, the Electoral College is expected to meet on December 19 to formally affirm Donald Trump as our 45th president to be sworn into office on January 20. The New York Times has released a detailed breakdown of how the Electoral College actually works, but essentially Clinton could still become the new commander in chief.

Nemanich said former Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain have been considered as possible alternatives because they had already been vetted during their respective 2012 and 2008 presidential runs.

“I’m expecting backlash, but that has been par for the course this campaign”. But I’m angry, too’.

No Elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged. One for each of the 36 congressional districts and two for our two US senators. Trump won 56.88 percent of the votes in the Electoral College.

And that’s something Trump should deal with as president. Today, citizens have a far better chance of knowing about out-of-state presidential candidates than knowing about presidential electors from their home states.

“We’re trying to be that “break in case of emergency” fire hose that’s gotten dusty over the last 200 years”, Washington elector P. Bret Chaifolo said to The Atlantic.

Baca, a registered Democrat and Bernie Sanders supporter, previously said he would consider voting for a moderate Republican like Kasich if it meant garnering more support.

In late November, Art Sisneros, an elector from Dayton, resigned because he did not consider Trump to be “biblically qualified” to serve in the White House. Donald Trump won the majority of the states, not Clinton in 2016-so liberals can put that in their pipe and smoke it.

It is unlikely that electors will mass defect away from Trump, but once the scandals blossom, remember that voters were warned about Trump nearly up until the minute that he took office.