Hillary Clinton’s Popular Vote Lead Surpasses 2 Million

However, they never expected any candidate to win a majority of the electoral vote.

Donald Trump secured his victory by winning previous Democratic strongholds of MI and Pennsylvania and easily secured the Electoral College 309 to 232. Counties there finished canvassing and making their results official, and while Hillary Clinton picked up a few thousand votes, President-elect Donald Trump is still more than 10,000 votes ahead.

If they carry out their intentions – in effect, becoming “faithless electors” – they would narrow Donald Trump’s margin-of-victory in the Electoral College over Hillary Clinton.

Here in MA a state senator who happens to have worked in the Obama White House has filed a resolution calling on Congress to abolish the Electoral College.

But the former secretary of state’s popular vote lead continues to grow.

Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday September 27, 2016 the candidate does not believe climate change is man-made, a day after his previous statements on the issue were scrutinized at the first presidential debate.

While Stein doesn’t stand to win anything from a recount, she said she is not doing it to help Clinton.

But that system lasted only a couple of decades, before states began holding statewide popular elections and binding their electors to those outcomes, effectively short-circuiting the Founders’ plan.

Clinton netted 64,223,958 votes, as compared to Trump’s 62,206,395 votes, says Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, as reported by Politico.

Each state is allocated a number of electors equal to the number of its U.S. senators (always two) plus the number of its USA representatives (which may change each decade according to the size of each state’s population as determined in the Census).

If they can succeed in denying Trump the 270 electoral votes needed to win, the decision would then go to the House of Representatives, where delegations of representatives from each state would decide whom to support.

Jill Stein, the presidential candidate for the Green Party, is trying to raisemore than $4 million for recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

As so often is the case with guarantees of liberty written into the Constitution, the founders were absolutely right on the Electoral College. Without the Electoral College, “you wouldn’t leave NY”, he said. In 2000, Al Gore received more popular votes than George W. Bush.