Posted on 12/12/2016 6:39:22 AM PST by kevcol
a group of Trump resisters is hoping to convince 37 Trump electors to vote for someone else on Monday, taking Trump just below the magic 270 mark. If that were to happen, Trump would not become president.
The hope is to create one of two scenarios. If rogue electors vote for candidates other than Hillary Clinton, who won 232 electoral votes on Election Day, then no candidate would have 270 and the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives. If the 37, plus one more, voted for Clinton, she would reach 270 and become president.
"This election is not in the books," said Chris Suprun, a Texas Republican elector who says he will not vote for Trump, at a news conference Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Rush Limbaugh is 100%...we are standing by and watching the Democrat Party commit political suicide!!! Just love it, when a plan like this comes together, and these idiot America hating, Obamabot/Clinton Democrat vermin destroy themselves, politically!!! Go Donald J. Trump!!!
Honest to God, these establishment types have a death wish.
Ah, yes. But the number is contingent on the electors voting for one of two candidates.
where is Brit? Haven’t seen him on Fox since Tucker took over the seven o’clock hour.
Correct. The dim leadership and its supporters are in secret rebellion against the United States and should be treated as such. It has been going on for many decades.
Winning on November 8 was one of the best feelings ever, but continuing to win the election over and over again since then has been pretty sweet too.
I disagree but whose to say this Dem in sheep’s clothing won’t vote Hillary. I am baffled as to why knowing his crap Texas or fellow electors from Texas do not replace him.
I would say that I have a better chance of being elected President than the Browns have at becoming Superbowl Champs.
People are getting worked up over something that has never happened before—at least in the numbers that are being bandied about.
Since the history is 0%, anyone giving odds on this is simply guessing.
I will be happy when this silliness is put to sleep.
Every faithless elector to change his vote would have to vote Hillary to change the outcome and that would require enough to put her ahead of Trump, whatever that number is. IMHO, ain’t happening.
I still want him removed or better yet stripped of his citizenship!
My bet? Really a NYC Lib transplant??? Naaaaaah. s/
It won’t end bloodlessly.
“We Will Have So Much Winning If I Get Elected That You May Get Bored With Winning”.
-Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump
If thrown to the House, I do NOT have confidence that Trump would be a slam dunk. It would become the U.S. vs. Trump and Putin, and they might install Hillary, who would give them the open borders, trade sellouts and endless wars the lobbyists demand
No, try reading your Constitution again.
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;--The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.
Your argument that everyone of Trump's electors who don't vote for him brings him one vote closer to victory is fallacious.
“Come 2018, they have about 20 senate seats up for reelection.”
It’s actually 24, plus the two Indies, Anus King and the Bern!
Thank you. I was misinformed.
You’re welcome.
Sigh. this whole GOP EV fake revolt agitprop being genned up by the fake stream media is the exact same fake news agitprop the fake stream media genned up during the GOP convention: for weeks they pounded the “delegates are revolting against Trump” drum. Kendal Unruh, Curly Hoagland, blah blah blah, fake news, blah blah blah. Naturally, nothing came of it and the GOP convention came off with a hitch (unlike the actual chaos as the Dem convention NOT reported by the fake stream media).
Now we have a “massive” revolt of ONE rogue elector: Chris Suprun, which has genned up 32 gazillion fake news stories.
Exactly the same thing will be the case on 12/19/2016 with the EV vote as was the case of the “GOP convention revolt” against Trump: the EV vote will go off without a hitch, despite all of the huffing and puffing and sturming und dranging of the fake stream media.
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