Posted on 12/19/2016 7:05:31 PM PST by Kaslin
Well, it’s all over. Donald J. Trump has officially won the 2016 election, nabbing 304 electoral votes. Today, Democratic and Republican electors ventured to their respective state capitals and cast their ballots to make the 2016 election official. The Republican House will verify the results in January, but it’s done. Trump will become the 45th president of the United States on January 20. There were rumors of defections or maneuvers among electors to lobby enough Republican electors to break from Trump. Attorney and brief 2016 Democratic candidate Lawrence Lessig said that 20 Trump electors could flip. In the end, more Clinton electors bolted from her than Republican ones abandoning Trump (via The Hill):
Four Democratic electors in Washington state cast votes for candidates other than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who carried the state.
Democratic electors in Maine, Minnesota and Colorado have separately tried to cast votes for different candidates, but saw their ballots barred. Clinton carried all three states.
Ahead of the Electoral College vote, the focus was on whether any voters would defect from casting ballots for Republican Donald Trump.
That didn’t happen. But two Republican electors in Texas chose alternatives to Trump. One, who had said weeks earlier he would switch is vote, chose Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich. The other chose former Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul.
Trump sealed his victory Monday evening when Texas’ 36 electoral votes pushed him over the edge of 270 with 304 votes.
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One Maine elector expressed interest in going rogue by voting for Bernie Sanders instead, but was told he could not and voted for Clinton.
Christine touched upon this earlier, but one Democratic elector in Washington State voted for “faith spotted eagle” instead of Clinton.
This pie-in-the-sky effort to block Trump was loaded with problems, namely how Trump electors would never leave the man. Second, 29 states have binding election laws in which the votes of the Electoral College go to the statewide winner. Two Colorado electors filed a lawsuit to have these rules tossed. Two Colorado-based judges rejected it; one of them being a federal judge nominated by President Bill Clinton. This legal shutdown pretty much shut down the lobbying of Republican electors for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who discouraged this course of action. Electors who go against the statewide winner in states that have these binding laws are usually replaced and could face legal charges. So, the whole exercise is moot to begin with.
To make matters even more sad, Hollywood liberals, the people whose unbridled snobbery and elitism contributed to Clinton’s defeat, cut a video pleading with Republican electors to vote their conscience and block Trump. Yeah, talk about bringing an arsonist to put out a fire. The Right already can’t stand the Hollywood Left—and rightfully so. You think a video with them pleading with GOP electors, saying they stand with them, is going to change their minds? And you wonder why you guys lost in 2016. Middle America doesn’t connect with you and they really don’t like you. For goodness sake, your gal called Trump supporters "deplorable."
A shaky hold on the Obama coalition, more of your electors bolting from you than your opponent's, epic losses in Congress, and near destruction at the state and local level—I think the Democratic Party is going to have a long stay in the wilderness, unless the GOP helps them out of it by royally screwing up after January 20.
very pale, and few if any wrinkles for a man his age. actually reminds me of hands I saw when a child, those of Dame Margot Fonteyn’s husband, backstage, in his wheelchair. He was partially paralyzed.
This is a BS title, there’s no tears there. Sociopaths don’t know how to cry. I just hope and pray the Clintons are done and gone forever.
Delicious to see that SOB cry.
Just when you think he can’t get any weirder.
Bah! Age creeps up on you. Don't I know it. ( A miner forty niner :-)
“Ouch: More Electors Bolted From Clinton Than Trump”
HA! I called this at 3:50 pm EST today.
I thought it was pretty strange that Bill Clinton was an elector from New York.
After fake news about how the electors could be flipped for a month the media once again is wronger then wrong. They had it completely wrong. Clinton lost more electors than Trump did.
no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
— US Constitution, Article II, Section 1.
He’s collecting a pension, isn’t he?
Trump - 304
Clinton - 228
Powell - 3
Paul - 1
Kasich - 1
Faith Spotted Eagle - 1
The fake news item of 2016 is the popular vs. electoral vote.
Trump won. The Beast lost. Period. The end.
Final score:
Trump - 304
Clinton - 227
Powell - 3
Paul - 1
Kasich - 1
Sanders - 1
Faith Spotted Eagle - 1
Ahead of the Electoral College vote, the focus was on whether any voters would defect from casting ballots for Republican Donald Trump.
Yes. And I posted about these two facts several hours ago.
Geez Big Media is really sick.
Go Spotted Eagle!!
Someone else’s hand om his face? And he looks like he’s doing his Dick Van Dyke impersonation.
Then, Hillary loses more EC votes during the EC.
The left should keep digging.
Losing FIVE of Electoral College voters is the worst performance since Democratic Party nominee Horace Greeley in 1872 who lost more than 60 EC voters; however, Greeley DIED after the November election but before the Electoral College had cast their votes. So, congrats, Hillary, you DID do better than a DEAD guy! LOL
Hillary better put some ice on that wound.
Yep! Whenever I see Bill Clinton and tears in the same sentence, I recall the Ron Brown funeral when Bill was walking alongside Tony Compollo, yucking it up, and then glimpsed the TV camera. Immediately put on dour face and wiped away imaginary tears. LOL!!
She will claim that electors were replaced by Russian agents
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