However, given the unique contentiousness of this election cycle, it is not hard to imagine that challenges might be issued during the vote tally. If anything, it grew stronger.
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But for now, the presidency is still decided by 538 electors. For example, both Clinton and Trump said the opponent “doesn’t know much” in case of the behavioral pattern with voters.
Richard Bennett, chairman of the Maine Republican Party, cast Maine’s lone electoral vote for Trump. Far from protecting minorities from the tyranny of the majority, the Electoral College, gerrymandering and voter suppression degrade the concept of one man (woman), one vote. But in order for their complaints to go anywhere, at least one senator must also sign onto the representatives’ Electoral College challenge. Her margin of popular-vote victory exceeded that of 10 elected presidents.
Trump’s total of nearly 63 million votes is almost a million votes better than the second-largest total by a Republican in history.
The Electoral College’s decision to formally elect Donald J. Trump as America’s 45th president is now official.
Although the Electoral College was established in 1787, it has a loophole – as evident now; when it comes to voting and is considered a parallel system to the direct voting method.
“In Minnesota, the Electoral College per state rules replaced an elector who refused to vote for her”.
The two elephants in the room that no one wants to publicly talk about are Clinton’s silk-stocking white liberal honor guard and the leftover Gov. Jim Doyle political operatives who still control Democrat politics in Wisconsin.
“Wrong, he called me (with a very nice congratulations)”, Trump said in a two-part tweet. “So, I’ll take a guess that 99 percent of these folks are all Democrats”. They adopted something of a wait-and-see approach, “never fully endorsing the effort, but intentionally declining to stamp it out”.
“We’re here to ensure the integrity of the Electoral College”, said McKibben, a Trump supporter. That would require the transition he has yet to make from Republican candidate to president of all Americans.
“Any change worth fighting for is worth a long-term investment”, she says. I’m not even referring to allegations that Russian hackers may have played some role in influencing the election.
The fact that the U.S. citizens did protest against Trump’s win speaks volume of the democratic system working in the United States.
Electors in some states are paid a nominal fee, while those in other states are not. However, consider this: she received 4.3 million more votes than Trump in liberal/socialist-leaning California.
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Changing or eliminating the Electoral College is something a new president with control of Congress might be able to pull off were it a priority. Trump will be inaugurated on January 20 in Washington.
