Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by over two million in popular vote

Hillary Clinton’s national popular vote lead over President-elect Donald Trump has now exceeded two million votes.

But while such a scenario is a virtual impossibility – it would require 37 Republican electors to abandon Mr Trump – the electors have other plans in mind. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore got 500,000 more votes than Republican George W. Bush, but came up short in the Electoral College due to a hotly contested race in Florida.

“I don’t think this year is a normal year, it’s been a very divisive campaign and I’m reaching out to Republican electors, Democratic electors, searching for a unity Hamilton candidate to really unite this country”, Micheal Baca, a Colorado elector, told CNN’s Carol Costello Wednesday.

But President-Elect Donald Trump, who once blasted the Electoral College system, which will end up formally declaring him the President-Elect, is now in favor of it.

“The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy”, Trump declared then. Trump defeated Clinton by a projected approximate amount of 70 Electoral College votes despite losing the popular vote by approximately two million votes.

It is extremely rare for an elector to disobey the will of the public, and in certain states voters are bound by state law to follow the popular vote.

Trump’s reversal on further investigations of the Clintons raised questions about the gulf between his fiery campaign promises and what he intends to do as the nation’s 45th president.

US officials say in the two weeks since the election, the president-elect has attended far fewer briefings than his predecessors.

Since votes in many states are still being counted, it is expected that Clinton’s lead in the popular vote, with Michigan’s 16 electoral votes still up for grab, will continue to grow.

He also indicated he won’t go after Hillary Clinton with a special prosecutor or pursue criminal charges against her, as he’d promised during the campaign.

Clinton ran up her popular vote total in large states along the coast, such as California and NY.

The President-elect also reversed course on the issue of climate change, telling the Times: “I think there is some connectivity between humans and climate change”. We as a community need to make sure that all people are protected. “I do think that a by-product would be a serious look into electoral college reform”, Michael Baca, a Democratic elector from Colorado, told Politico. A candidate needs to secure 270 electoral votes to win.