Not too late to deny Trump the presidency
But Maine’s northern 2nd Congressional District has become more conservative in recent years and by winning the district Trump picked up one electoral vote, even though he lost the state overall.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spar during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri on October 9, 2016. And, there’s been some talk of electors casting protest votes.
The issue of Trump reconciling his White House duties while owning billions in assets around the world has been a key concern since he won the presidency on November 8. But General Mattis found it to be very less important, much less important than I thought he would say.
“There simply was not the same level of confidence that voters would make the correct decisions”. In Wisconsin, it’s ten.
As many as 7,143,347 votes went to third party, write-ins, or independent candidates, the data revealed.
California, the home state of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, is giving Clinton more than 61 percent of its vote. Presently, at least six electors are stating that they will not cast their vote for Trump and are asking other electors to join them.
In a call with donors, she claimed that two letters Comey sent to Congress, one effectively re-opening the probe and then another closing it again after finding no new evidence of wrongdoing, had tilted crucial states towards her Republican rival. Trump defeated Clinton by a projected approximate amount of 70 Electoral College votes despite losing the popular vote by approximately two million votes. “We learned that was false because we ended up with what, three-something (electoral votes)”.
Looking to help Boxer’s bill gain steam are a handful of Electoral College electors, who are vowing to break the rules and not vote for the candidate they vowed to support in order to “undermine the legitimacy of the institution”, Politico reported.
President-elect Donald Trump in New Jersey.