We don’t vote for a president – we vote for the electors who in turn cast their votes for the candidates they pledged themselves to elect.
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Still, Trump’s vote-challenged victory provides fodder for Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tim Kaine, all of whom remain in the Senate to refute the big lie (as many Trump pronouncements in the election were) of the electorate’s overwhelming love affair with the president-elect. A Change.org petition, being spread by celebrities like Lady Gaga, calls for electors to reject their states’ votes and instead vote for Clinton.
The idea of the “secret Trump vote” popped up throughout the election – the theory being that voters didn’t want to tell a stranger on the phone that they were voting for Trump, who said and did so many controversial things on the campaign trail.
The compact has so far been signed by ten states and the District of Columbia, which together represent 61 per cent of the 270 electoral votes needed for it to come into effect. With their elections there is the introduction of the Electoral College which was instituted back in 1787 during a constitutional convention to decide on how to elect the president at the time.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Donald Trump just earned a mandate, which seems to indicate a landslide victory, something Trump most certainly didn’t accomplish.
Yet although Americans may like to believe that the selection of president reflects the public’s opinions on its candidates, four other elections have seen the popular vote go one way, and the election results go another. At the time of writing, however, Hillary Clinton appears set to win approximately two million votes more than President-elect Donald Trump, which gives lie to the all-too-common characterization of Trump supporters as a “silent majority” – a blatant numerical (not to mention auditory) falsehood if ever there was one.
Incoming House Speaker Richard Corcoran announced his inner circle Wednesday, and one Northeast Florida lawmaker is in the mix. As of Monday, Hillary Clinton was up by about 670,000 votes, with anywhere from 4 million to 7 million votes still uncounted nationally.
Another assumption that the Framers apparently made was that each elector would use his own independent judgment in how to cast his vote. “I happen to think that it would be healthy to the body politic, having one national constituency as opposed to being divided between red and blue states”.
Americans and people worldwide were shocked to hear that infamous Trump with his harsh campaign strategies of putting up a wall around America’s border to Mexico. However, they can vote for Hillary Clinton if they choose.
Donald Trump will be our new President.
It is impossible to know whether Mr Trump would still have prevailed in those circumstances, however. “It dilutes the kind of influence that they have”, he says.
With investors anxious a Trump victory could cause economic and global uncertainty, the U.S. dollar sank and stock markets plummeted in wild Asian trading. Trump’s hard-edged social conservatism, not just a general anti- establishment appeal, drove up white turnout in many key counties.
For way more than a century, the electoral vote was always won by the victor of the popular vote.
In Pennsylvania, Trump won the state by about 70,000 votes.
“What?” you say. “How do you divide the electors into parts?”
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In the past, Trump has been critical of the Electoral College. “You make certain assumptions about demographic turnout”.
