Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 2m Popular Votes

Democrat Hillary Clinton has now amassed more than a 2-million popular vote lead over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who won the White House by winning where it matters, in states with enough electoral votes to become the country’s 45th chief executive. The Constitution doesn’t say anything about when the electors vote, only that they must “meet in their respective states”. Apply the same math to California and it would have 159 Electoral College votes.

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. In the second debate he said, “If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there’s never been so many lies, so much deception”.

But. As long as the Electoral College is there, it should perform the function the Framers had in mind: preventing the election of a demagogue. And the head of MI elections says he’s skeptical of any foul play. They will meet on December 19 to make the election result official.

We’ll watch with interest to see if the latest loss of the White House by the popular vote victor has any impact on the selection system.

Trump probably tweeted against the Electoral College because he thought it might happen to him – win the popular vote, lose the electoral.

There have been various potential alternatives proposed to the current operation of the Electoral College.

Trump has carried historically Democratic areas, from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties in Washington, the only two Evergreen State counties that voted for Democrat George McGovern in 1972.

No mention of his own apparent ethical conflicts of interest, namely the need to immediately place all of his business holdings in a blind trust, which does not mean handing them over to his own children.

We already talked about Trump’s insistence on convincing Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., but that’s just one tidbit from the interview. Did Alexander Hamilton Create The Electoral College?

If you didn’t figure out during the 2016 presidential election that President-elect Donald Trump refuses to be pinned down on issues, consider this your refresher course.

That plan would see electors from both sides of the aisle cast ballots for a moderate Republican like John Kasich or Mitt Romney, draining support from both presidential nominees and denying Mr Trump a majority of votes.