Can The Electoral College Stop Donald Trump? Electors Meet Monday To Vote

Electoral College delegates will meet in their respective states on Monday, a date mandated by law. “So I don’t think they’re going to get to 37”.

The college is a process, which acts as a compromise between the election of a president by Congress and the election of a president by the popular vote.

Snelgrove said he finds it ironic that because Trump won in traditionally Democratic states that Democrats are crying foul and want to go with an option they didn’t have before the election in letting the popular vote decide the presidency.

Clinton is only the fifth candidate in USA history to win the popular vote yet lose the Electoral College, joining Al Gore from 2000, Andrew Jackson from 1824, Samuel Tilden from 1876 and Grover Cleveland from 1888. Voting against Trump is even more important, argues Lessig, given that a Russian official admitted that Kremlin officials conferred with members of the Trump campaign during the election. The Associated Press reached out to all 538 electors and found just one who had decided not to vote for Trump despite winning the elector’s state.

Efforts around the country urging presidential electors to dump President-elect Donald Trump are picking up, including in Utah.

The celebrities repeat three times that they’re not asking anyone to vote for Clinton.

However, no one knows exactly how many faithless electors there will be tomorrow-estimates range from one to 25. Also attending will be Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson and a handful of Republican leaders from the state House and Senate as well as Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, who was named last week as the new deputy chair of the Republican National Committee. “He’s said so many nasty things that I would be fired for as a teacher”. “But I signed a loyalty pledge, and that matters”.

And, as expected, NPR reported on Friday that the electors would not be receiving an intelligence briefing. Electoral College defenders argue that it serves to check the passions of ordinary voters, pointing to Alexander Hamilton’s view in The Federalist Papers that the Electoral College would help ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications”.

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Had Clinton won more electoral votes – even if she finished second in the popular vote – her supporters would have proclaimed victory and vociferously condemned any attempt to incite the electoral college to keep her out of the White House.

Judges in both states ruled that the Democratic electors must support Mrs. Clinton, who won both Colorado and Washington.

Two Washington electors, P. Bret Chiafalo and Levi Guerra, have vowed to vote for someone other than Mrs. Clinton and risk the $1,000 fine. Otherwise, the election goes to the House – and that’s only happened once, in 1824 when the House voted John Quincy Adams into office, rejecting Andrew Jackson, who had received a plurality of the votes.

After their duties are completed, the electors get one more perk for their efforts – each elector receives a coveted ticket to the January 20 presidential inauguration.

Indiana’s electors would be unlikely rebels anyway, with a roster of party insiders Simcox, state treasurer Kelly Mitchell, six current or former county party chairs, a district chair, and two state party officials.

“I have more mail than Santa”, said Lee Snover, an elector and chairwoman of the Northampton County Republican Committee, adding that she’s received more than 10,000 emails and was sent a copy of the Federalist Papers, which includes an essay detailing an argument on the objective of the Electoral College.

What’s more, this election has taken a swipe at the so-called liberal elite – and nowhere is the elite more liberal than in Hollywood.