“This National Popular Vote legislation will add OH to the compact of states that believe, in a true Democracy, the candidate with the most votes wins”. Though the states can choose their method of selecting electors, every state since the Civil War has opted for popular elections. Twenty-five states alone have a united Republican government.
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Embedded in our Constitution, the Electoral College is the system for electing our president through a slate of “electors” in each state, rather than by direct popular vote.
He’s also urging the Electoral College at large to reject Trump when they convene on December 19. To win the presidency, a candidate must receive a majority of electoral votes.
Over 4.7 million people have signed a petition calling on the Electoral College to stop Donald Trump from being President.
The tweet in question is possibly one of the most uplifting things to come out of 2016, too.
That fluidity is another characteristic of the Electoral College system. So far, at least seven people, six publicly, have stated they will be faithless voters.
Another Texas Republican elector, Art Sisneros, resigned last week rather than vote for Trump.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook disputed a report that said President Barack Obama had to encourage the former secretary of state to concede to Donald Trump on Election Night, saying she had already made up her mind before talking to the President. That adds up to 538 – the 535 members of Congress, plus three votes for the District of Columbia. Even if Suprun doesn’t cast his vote for Trump, Trump is headed toward the 270 votes he needs to become president in January.
The four electors hope that if the law is struck down, Colorado’s electors can join forces with other Democrats pledged to Clinton and disaffected Republicans pledged to Trump to find an alternative Republican acceptable to both sides, Nemanich said. It’s a system based winning states and the states’ electors. “Delete your account”, she tweeted, in response to Trump tweeting “Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary”.
Per CNN, Hillary Clinton’s margin of victory in California was almost 3.4 million votes.
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The Federalist Papers, Suprun wrote, argue that the Electoral College is tasked with ensuring candidates are “qualified, not engaged in demagogy, and independent from foreign influence”.
