Clinton’s Popular Vote Lead Over Trump Now Exceeds 2.3 Million

A MI college student selected as a Electoral College voter is saying he is being “inundated with death threats” over his vote for president-elect Donald Trump.

Clinton’s victory in the popular vote has generated criticism of the United States’ Electoral College system, which Trump won 306-232. But in the election revolution of 1800, Thomas Jefferson, leader of the Republican Party, was chosen president. If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win. But their task is so big that they might be called Quixote Electors, after the literary character famous for tilting at windmills.

Mr Brezenoff wrote in the petition: “Hillary won the popular vote”. Some states have caucuses, some elect delegates.

U.S. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s popular lead over President-elect Donald Trump surpasses 2.5 million votes on Thursday as ballots are still being tallied after more than three weeks since the November 8 general election.

The move allows them to raise money and the electors on their website are soliciting donations. He predicted Maryland could see three or four electoral votes go to Republicans. Based on their population, Washington and Colorado are given 12 and nine electors, respectively. “His track record shows that he is a man of coveting and self-serving – a liar and a cheat should not hold that position”.

Under the system Peroutka supports, each of the state’s eight congressional districts would have an Electoral College vote and the victor of the popular vote statewide would be awarded the remaining two electors. The Electoral College system requires that representatives of each state cast ballots to decide who will actually become the new President. We have Constitutional amendments that guarantee the right of all citizens to vote regardless of race, gender and age for citizens who are 18 years of age and older, as well as an amendment to empower citizens to directly elect U.S. Senators. “This is an emergency”. Every state has a designated number of electoral votes, and each of the major political parties picks that number of electors.

And the Democrats said before the election that if their side lost, they would live by the results.