Posted on 12/14/2016 2:38:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Full-page ads created by a Democratic activist are urging Electoral College members to vote against President-elect Donald Trump on Monday.
The ads, which began running in newspapers across the country Wednesday, are funded by Daniel Brezenoff, who made a Change.org petition urging electors not to vote for Trump.
He told Politico the ad is not aimed at choosing Clinton or a specific Republican alternative to Trump but intended to inspire electors to use their own judgment before voting.
“There are times in the life of a nation when extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures,” the ad reads. “Now is such a time, and your courage and leadership are required.”
The ad, which encouraged Republican electors to “vote their conscious,” appeared in the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Austin American-Statesman, Salt Lake City Tribune and Tampa Bay Times. The ad will also appear on Thursday in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Wisconsin State Journal. All of the newspapers listed — aside from The Washington Post — primarily serve communities in states that turned red on Nov. 8.
"You, Electors, possess the power to prevent this outcome," the ad reads. "You are not bound to cast your vote for the candidate of your party — and, as he won neither a majority nor even a plurality of the popular vote, there can be no question of undermining the will of The People."
The 538 electors will gather around the country on Monday to vote.
On Nov. 8, Trump won 306 electoral votes and Hillary Clinton got 232. For Trump to lose the presidency, 37 Republican electors would have to switch their vote on Dec. 19.
The chances of that happening are very unlikely.
Only one GOP elector, Chris Suprun from Texas, has vowed not to vote for Trump.
Suprun has claimed other GOP electors are planning not to vote for Trump either, but virtually all GOP electors contacted by The Hill have said they would vote for Trump.
Their desperation is delicious.
Don’t these fools know that in the early republic legislators chose electors as opposed to public voting in most states? The whole idea from leftists is absurd that they’re meant to be free of conscience now when it evolved to be chose now from VOTERS in each state.
Pissing up a rope.
imagine the MSM response if the GOP had put out ads like this in 2008 and 2012
cries of racism? at a minimum
sedition? definition
treason? of course
These idiots really do want blood flowing in the streets, dont they.
The shame of this is that the money for these ads is simply flowing from one Democrat supporter to other supporters. In a ‘fair’ world, such an outrageous and unprecedented effort should carry a cost commensurate with the hutzpah. These ads should be placed on talk radio and conservative web sites and thus support them with the advertising dollars!
Democrats never fail to overreach do they?
This has become beyond hilarious! We’re going to have a good long laugh at their expense next Monday.
We’re delightfully watching the political suicide of the Democratic Party. They’ve relegated rational people to the Republican Party for decades to come.
DUmmies are now saying that the number of electors saying that they won’t vote for Trump is up to 39.
They heard it on The View. (HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!)
I'm getting tired of all this winning.
“vote their conscious [sic],”
Tee-hee. Something most Democrats don’t do, especially the dead voters...definitely not conscious.
“extraordinary circumstances” = “Democrats lost”
Exactly. Perhaps they would be comfortable returning to the old ways, letting the state legislators allocate electoral votes at their whim, without any public elections. By the way, there is nothing that prevents the state legislatures from returning to that technique (I think). In 2016, using that technique, Trump wins that way by an even bigger margin.
They have LOST...LOST it all...Hairy Reid said today that the DNC did not do a thing to help the State DNC, so where did that leave them? NOWHERE...
If you look at the DNC now, compared to what it used to be, and then after Clinton being Sec. of St. and Barky being a two term jerk, they have NOTHING...
Who is going to run against Trump in 2020? Who is there? By that time, we will have a wall; healthcare; our Vets taken care of; lower taxes and jobs for everyone...just who have they got to run against him? Hillary again??? ROFLMAO...right...and even by then we will have our ‘voting rights’ straighten out...
So we are going to be okay...America is going to be okay and I can’t wait until Jan. 20, 2017!!!
We have a better odds of a gigantic hemispheric hurricane, an 8.9 Richter scale ten-plate tectonic earthquake, a spaceship alien invasion from Mars, Pelosi skipping her scheduled botox injections. Every event mentioned happening at the same time.
By that time, we will have a wall; healthcare; our Vets taken care of; lower taxes
and jobs for everyone...just who have they got to run against him?
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If Trump can accomplish even 1/2 of that in four years it will be fantastic.
“The ad, which encouraged Republican electors to ‘vote their conscious,’...”
Ted Cruz: “Vote your conscience.”
...and I’m sure he will do more than what I have mentioned, and I still want to know WHO have they got to run against him...in either party???...
I guess you have voters and electors mixed up.
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