I agreed with most experts that Hillary Clinton would win. In his stunning victory this week, Trump won the electoral college, 290-232.
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New questions about Trump’s demeanor surfaced on Thursday night when he appeared to briefly take back control of the Twitter account that the campaign had reportedly confiscated from him in the final days of the campaign.
In the Congress and in every other election in this country, be it for governor, mayor, alderman, etc., those who receive the most votes win the contest. In those cases, electors who vote against their state may incur a fine and be charged with a misdemeanor.
Then, there are also many people of good conscience who voted for Trump.
The petition posted on Change.org has garnered almost three million signatures, 2.9 million to be exact, and urges the electors to ignore their states’ votes and cast their ballots for Clinton. His firm and most other polls had Trump up in the state, heading into Election Day.
The Electoral College is set to meet on December 19 and should an elector vote against the will of the people – known as going “faithless” – then it could have a huge sway on who becomes the next U.S. leader. Trump tweeted October 21, a day after a poll commissioned by the Arizona Republic and Cronkite News reported Clinton up by five points in Arizona – where 20 percent of those surveyed were undecided. “I think that’s always possible”, he says. “Nothing about our looming conflict with North Korea – the way it has been ignored by campaign journalists and the way Clinton and Trump have ignored it, too – should give us any comfort”, I wrote in September. Instead voting for Democratic candidate John Kerry, an elector in Minnesota cast a vote for John Edwards.
Following President Barack Obama’s White House meeting with President-elect Donald Trump, a photo of the two men emerged that has entered a Photoshop battle. “Based on these values, I offer close cooperation to the future president”. It would require individual states that have small numbers of electoral votes to be able to go to the popular vote and they’re not going to want to do that. She’s “unlikeable”, they say, a classic “establishment” figure.
With no disrespect intended toward those who participated in peaceful protests in Chicago this past week, I’m not sure those protests served any positive objective other than to help those involved ease some of their own anxiety. It was the price we paid for our Constitution. “It’s a tentative hand position”, Ms Wood said.
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Potential members of his administration, Washington power brokers, media pundits and world leaders alike are grappling for some insight into Trump’s intentions and political direction. “We need to keep an eye, of course, on what they do”.
