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5 min ago Trump formally clinches Electoral College victory with Texas’ 40 votes From CNN's
CNN ^ | 12/17/24 | Ethan Cohen

Posted on 12/17/2024 12:52:16 PM PST by BigEdLB

President-elect Donald Trump has received enough electoral votes to officially clinch the presidency, a major milestone that he reached when Texas’ electors awarded him the state’s 40 electoral votes at their meeting Tuesday in Austin. While Trump won the election on November 5, his victory was formalized Tuesday as presidential electors gathered across the country as part of the constitutional process to officially elect a President known as the Electoral College. More on the process: It takes 270 of the 538 electoral votes to be elected President. Trump won 312 in November’s election to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226. So far, every elector has voted for the candidate they were elected to represent. Next, each state’s votes will be sent to Congress. Lawmakers will meet in joint session on January 6 to formally tally the electoral votes and officially declare Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance the next president and vice president. Trump and Vance will take office at noon on January 20, 2025.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2024; 2024election; austin; donaldtrump; election2024; electoralcollege; electoralvote; jdvance; maga; ohio; presidentelecttrump; rfkjr; robertkennedyjr; texas; trump; trump2024; trump47
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I love it when a plan comes together
1 posted on 12/17/2024 12:52:16 PM PST by BigEdLB
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Right now it is 295-153 Trump!


2 posted on 12/17/2024 12:53:30 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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It will be hilarious to see Kamala reject objections to Trump’s victory from fellow Democrats.


3 posted on 12/17/2024 12:53:53 PM PST by nwrep
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But...but....the idiotic Dims NOW want to abolish the Electoral College vote.

🙃


4 posted on 12/17/2024 12:54:21 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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Reminder: 8 years ago the Dims thought it was cool to demand that the electoral college ignore the votes and make Hillary prez. Will they do the same this time?

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-president-donald-trump-electoral-college-voters-petition-a7412311.html

5 posted on 12/17/2024 12:56:01 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Haven’t had OR or CA yet. Let’s see how many flakeouts in CA...


6 posted on 12/17/2024 12:56:35 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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I love it when a plan comes together

Hannibal?

7 posted on 12/17/2024 12:58:22 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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Sir, Raskin still wants to stop this when they count votes in congress....

We should make him an offer he can't refuse
8 posted on 12/17/2024 12:59:08 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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I wonder if a Kamala elector will vote for, “Brandon”


9 posted on 12/17/2024 1:00:07 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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To: BigEdLB

301-153


10 posted on 12/17/2024 1:01:21 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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This is good news; not that it would happen again but as I recall in 2016 there were three Texas electors who were pledged to Trump who didn’t vote for him.


11 posted on 12/17/2024 1:01:29 PM PST by laconic ( )
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there were a bunch of electors from blue states that did not vote for Hillary. I wonder how many will not vote for Kamala.


12 posted on 12/17/2024 1:03:57 PM PST by ChronicMA
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To: BigEdLB

Honor the Texas Flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible.


13 posted on 12/17/2024 1:04:14 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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“Lawmakers will meet in joint session on January 6 to formally tally the electoral votes and officially declare Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance the next president and vice president.”

I have it on very good authority that the Vice President is allowed to reject electoral college votes.


14 posted on 12/17/2024 1:06:06 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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Their ‘excuse’ was that the ‘popular vote’ is what counts.

Trump won that too, so now they have no excuse whatsoever..............


15 posted on 12/17/2024 1:08:34 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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I know!! I’m LOVIN’ this 🤣


16 posted on 12/17/2024 1:09:23 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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Pence says he couldn’t alter the outcome so neither can she


17 posted on 12/17/2024 1:09:31 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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But...but....the idiotic Dims NOW want to abolish the Electoral College vote.

They always do after they lose.
NEVER when they win.
18 posted on 12/17/2024 1:11:51 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: Red Badger

Trump won popular vote by 2,285,488


19 posted on 12/17/2024 1:11:56 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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Good one! I was wondering if Raskin still had plans.


20 posted on 12/17/2024 1:12:07 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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