“But I would rather see it where you went with simple votes”.
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But, as everyone knows, Washington and the rest of the West Coast were locked up for Hillary Clinton this month, as was NY. Capture Florida, and lo and behold, we get to inaugurate the person we elected.
For Democrats who were shocked by Hillary Clinton’s unexpected loss, the idea of “faithless electors” in the Electoral College snatching victory away from President-elect Donald Trump has always been a tantalizing pipe dream. “We need to have post-election ballot audits”.
The growing margin far surpasses Al Gore’s lead over President George W. Bush in 2000, which was about 540,000 votes. The petition, named “Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on december 19”, has crossed over 4.5 million signatures.
According to the baffling USA electoral system, each state has a number of representatives – known as “electors” – who choose the president.
Clinton ran up her popular vote total in large states along the coast, such as California and NY.
He said that while there is “no clear requirement in the Constitution that electors vote for the candidate they’re pledged to … it’s very unlikely that defections will happen now”. There’s no need to apportion the general election by 50 weighted prizes from ME to Hawaii.
And take a close look at the final map of states each candidate won. “It was a total humiliation for her”.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now leads by at least 2 million votes in the Electoral College, according to a Politico report published Wednesday, but the vast majority of that lead comes from highly Democratic California. And Trump’s charitable foundation said in a tax filing that it had engaged in self-dealing in 2015 and prior years that resulted from payments to “disqualified persons”, or foundation insiders.
California, the home state of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, is giving Clinton more than 61 percent of its vote.
It will be the fifth time the leader of the nationwide vote lost the presidency.
And you can forget about big changes to the system, as that would require a constitutional amendment.
“I don’t want to hurt them”, he said of the Clinton family.
The Electoral College was created to ensure that any state in the union has representation, and that remains an important factor today. That lasted until Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
“I was never a fan of the Electoral College until now”, he said.
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Donald Trump’s decision not to pursue charges against Hillary Clinton hasn’t gone down well with his supporters – many are angry that he’s gone back on an election promise.
