OH Gov. Kasich tells state electors to vote for Trump, not him

Texas elector Chris Suprun said Monday that he won’t cast one of his state’s 38 electoral votes for Donald Trump because his role is “to elect a president, not a king”.

In Ohio, it has been suggested some electors should vote for Gov. John Kasich instead of Trump, who won the state November 8.

People who don’t want Donald Trump as president are working electors over in Texas and elsewhere to change their vote.

But they will all meet December 19 at state capitals and in the District of Columbia to participate in the Electoral College and vote for president. So far, at least seven people, six publicly, have stated they will be faithless voters.

“I have been told that this type of action leads to insurrection, which I think is unfortunate”, Suprun said. But since Kasich put out a statement rebuffing the effort to whip electoral college support for a last ditch bid, Suprun said he has been “in a deliberations phase” searching for another alternative.

His problem is with its victor. “Although there might be some fall-off, Donald Trump will be president”.

But, in an opinion piece for the New York Times, Suprun says Trump shows “daily he is not qualified for the office”. “The election of the next president is not yet a done deal”, he added.

“I am not sure of other electors specifically doing what I’m doing”. “Electors of conscience can still do the right thing for the good of the country”. Not only because Lin Manuel-Miranda’s play saved our artistic souls, but because the man who wrote the Federalist papers is now in a position to affect the outcome of the most meaningful national election in our lifetime.

Suprun said, “Last night he went after a union boss at the Carrier plant he was supposedly helping and there’s at least 50 Republicans who are national security and foreign policy experts who said during the campaign, ‘He’s completely unqualified and would be a unsafe president'”.

Should they win their long-shot lawsuit, it will have no effect in Colorado – Mrs. Clinton won the state and its nine Electoral College votes.

US Congressman David Cicilline from the state of Rhode Island said that a basic principle of democracy is that no person’s vote counts more than another person’s vote.

However one feels about Mister Trump, his support is now sufficiently well established as to prevent any other Republican from getting close to majority support in The House.