Salome Peters, one of Maryland’s 10 Democratic electors, doesn’t hesitate when asked whether she believes the Electoral College system should be changed. As of last week, he had received more than 2,000 emails.
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“None of them have been vetted like Trump, done any of the work Trump is doing to get ready to be president”, he wrote.
Electoral College members will gather in state capitals across the country on Monday to cast their votes.
“By voting your conscience, you and other fearless Republican electors can give the House of Representatives the option to select a qualified candidate for the presidency”, says Schiff, who played the White House communications director alongside Sheen on “The West Wing”. That is the majority of the 538 total votes. Please do not mention Clinton because she was a part of numerous foregoing, her platform would continue much of what we’ve had for 8 years and a Republican House would never vote for her.
To Trende, this implies a lot of abstention or third-party voting by Republicans who were uncomfortable with Trump but might have swallowed their doubts if Clinton had a better chance to get the state’s 38 electoral votes – or win in a direct national election. This is why, notwithstanding recent protestations concerning the impact of Russian hacking during the election season, over time there have been very few faithless electors, and none that have decided an election’s outcome. But, experts say it’s highly unlikely. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
“I believe electors should unify behind a Republican alternative, an honorable and qualified man or woman such as Gov. John Kasich of OH”, he wrote.
Lawrence Lessig is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard University.
The Associated Press interviewed more than 330 electors from both parties and found little appetite among Republicans for peeling away from Trump. But that could not be confirmed.
Under the current Electoral College system, voters decide to support slates of “electors”, who meet to choose the president.
There are also efforts on the balance of the electors who are bound to vote for Trump. “It really depends on some of the Trump electors wishing to do something different and I haven’t heard or seen that”, he said.
Never in our history has the argument for electors exercising their independent judgment been as overwhelmingly strong-because of the concerns about foreign involvement in our election, because of Mr. Trump’s refusal to comply with constitutional limitations on foreign assets, and because of the overwhelming popular vote margin by his opponent.
The group is named for Alexander Hamilton, one of the founders of the United States.
Salome Peters is one of Maryland’s 10 Democratic electors.
In 1824, Andrew Jackson was considered by many in the Establishment of its day to be unfit for public office, let alone the presidency.
I was an elected Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives for 12 years and voted on several thousand legislative bills.
“If we continue to have this situation where the loser of the popular vote can win the election, it undermines the confidence of the American people in the democratic process”, he said.
But a growing number of electors are anxious that Russian Federation did try to help Trump win.
Federal law requires electors from all 50 states and Washington D.C.to cast their votes on Monday.
All but one of those electors are Democrats.
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“Republican members of the Electoral College, this message is for you”, preachy left-wing Martin Sheen, who played a fictional president on the political drama “The West Wing”, says at the opening of the video.
