40 electors demand briefing on Trump ties to Russian Federation

And the post-election Trump has been as abusive and self-involved as he was during the campaign.

A new report says a Central Intelligence Agency assessment found that Russian Federation intervened in the 2016 US presidential election by hacking into the emails of the Democratic National Committee and one of Hillary Clinton’s top advisers in an effort to boost Donald Trump. Based on Trump’s turnout in the popular vote, he is expected to receive 306 votes, more than the 270 he needs to win.

In fact, there’s something illogical about our democracy itself. Although Clinton herself has not waded into this story in any way, she undeniably made fears that Trump would refuse to accept the results of the election an issue in the final weeks of her campaign.

The Clinton campaign and others have accused Russian Federation of being behind the Wikileaks, in an effort to help get Trump elected, as the NY mogul has said he would cut a deal for better relations with Russian Federation if elected.

Imagine what the Republicans would be doing if Trump had won the popular vote by almost 3m votes but, because of less than 100,000 votes in the upper midwest, he’d lost the electoral college: they’d be suing for recounts across the land, casting aspersions of voter fraud on black and brown-majority districts, and giving not-so-tacit approval for armed militias and the KKK to intimidate electoral college members into changing their votes.

A group of nine Democratic senators on Tuesday requested a formal intelligence community finding regarding the scope of the Russian government’s intervention in the USA presidential election process. In the past, the largest number of electors to reject a presidential nominee was in 1808 when six Democratic-Republican electors rejected James Madison’s election.

The below chart shows the percent winning margin in the popular vote versus the percent winning margin in the electoral vote across recent elections.

Nemanich is an elector from Colorado Springs and Baca is a former state senator and elector from Denver.

Trump’s victory in the three states that gave him the win in the Electoral College amount to a bare nine-one hundredths of 1 percent of the votes cast. That’s never mattered or been seriously tested because there have been few cases of so-called “faithless electors”-the last occurrence was in 2004″. If Trump takes office, it’s the Electoral College system that will do it. “It’s very much a long shot”. Putin accomplished that. A delay will claw back some legitimacy and confidence in government, and relay commitment and dedication to our democratic processes, a message that will not fall on deaf ears in fellow democracies like Germany that also fear being targeted by Putin in upcoming elections. “This is supposed to be a Democratic republic”, he said.

The letter is signed by Minority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), and Sens. “It will be a fruitless effort”. With Republicans controlling a majority of state delegations, it seems likely that Trump would ultimately prevail. Unlike at the convention, the electors are spread across the country. Party chairman and incoming White House chief-of-staff Reince Priebus denies that the RNC was hacked, though how he’d know that is unclear.

The FBI investigation into the Bank of NY should be released, and as many have pushed, so should Trump’s financial records.

House Democrats also ratcheted up the rhetoric on Tuesday.

Two Colorado electors are asking the state supreme court to let them vote for someone other than Hillary Clinton on Monday. That he lost the popular vote does not matter; to vote in an election is to agree to abide by its rules, same as any other game.

Additionally, Trump has stated that it’s impossible to figure out which flags hackers fly unless you catch them in the act, but the exact opposite is true.

The Electoral College is more popular with Republicans than Democrats. But he said Democrats are not looking for changes after winning the presidency in 2008 and 2012.