538 electors in the electoral college, 270 needed to win. One elector for each House critter, two for senators. Simple.
You can believe the left branch, and even the right branch of Uniparty would be screaming bloody murder if one of their electors decided they decided they didn’t want to vote with the voters they are expected to represent.
Resident Cruzers would say, the candidate not receiving the vote s/he earned from American voters didn’t know what he was doing or wasn’t “working hard enough” and/or was “whining” about losing.
When in fact they won.
I suppose it could be explained as a matter of ‘whose ox is getting gored,’ but oddly enough it seems to be only Cruz who is gaining these fickle delegates.
Consequently, we see here the disgust by the rest of us to these lame, no, not lame—risible excuses for delegate theft, similar to the outrage that would be expressed by (at least the left wing of) Uniparty if the same thing happened November 6th.
The number of electors in each state is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the state is entitled, while the Twenty-third Amendment grants the District of Columbia the same number of electors as the least populous state, currently three. Therefore, in total, there are currently 538 electors, corresponding to the 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 senators, plus the three additional electors from the District of Columbia.
That's one for each congressman, and ONE for each senator.